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Planning & Consolidation => COGNOS Planning => Topic started by: satay2hot on 02 Apr 2009 12:01:26 AM

Title: Contributor administration deployment (backup) doesnt work
Post by: satay2hot on 02 Apr 2009 12:01:26 AM
Recently, I found that I am unable to do the exporting (backup). I am using the 8.3 planning. If I go to the CAC-Monitoring console-Deployment tab, it says the export  at run state of "READY" and has been there for 2 days now.

I have kill of the Job server cluster and tried re attaching a new one but to no avail.

Has anyone experience this problem? If the deployment doesnt work, it seems I cant backup the contributor model.

Cheers
Vincent
Title: Re: Contributor administration deployment (backup) doesnt work
Post by: StuartS on 02 Apr 2009 02:56:03 AM
Try rebooting your job server. 
Title: Re: Contributor administration deployment (backup) doesnt work
Post by: craig_karr on 03 Apr 2009 05:31:09 PM
Actually Cognos recommendation is to not use deployment for backups. You should backup the databases of your Planning applications the same way as you backup any other databases within your organization
Title: Re: Contributor administration deployment (backup) doesnt work
Post by: sascha on 06 Apr 2009 04:21:54 AM
Hi Vincent

did the deployment export work before?

Cheers,
Sascha
Title: Re: Contributor administration deployment (backup) doesnt work
Post by: satay2hot on 08 Apr 2009 05:39:13 AM
Re Craig- Agreed analyst is better backup using normal copy. But deployment backup is good to backup contributor data. It will restore nicely and will able to restore into more than one application from just one application. So I think we still need to use deployment backup.

Sacha, yes it has worked before. Puzzling it is not working anymore.

Cheers
Vincent
Title: Re: Contributor administration deployment (backup) doesnt work
Post by: sascha on 08 Apr 2009 09:43:00 AM
I think what Craig meant is not to backup the Analyst model files but the database itselve which will backup/restore application data as well.

I just had some problems starting the export deployment wizard some days ago when I had a "corrupt" admin link. When trying to export a deployment I got an error message and the wizard closed again. Deleting the admin link helped to get the export deployment working again. Could there something like this be applicable to you, too?

Do you get an error message when opening the deployment wizard or what happens exactly?