Contributor administration deployment (backup) doesnt work

[satay2hot]

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

[StuartS]

Try rebooting your job server. 

[craig_karr]

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

[sascha]

Hi Vincent

did the deployment export work before?

Cheers,
Sascha

[satay2hot]

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

[sascha]

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?