Backing up and restoring the Data Insight Management Server

It is mandatory to backup the Management Server.

To backup Management Server configuration files

1. Log into the Data Insight Management Server.

2. Backup the entire \DataInsight\data folder using backup software of your choice. The backup software should be capable of taking Volume Shadow Copy/Snapshot based backups. If your backup software does not have such a capability, you must stop all Data Insight services before backup to avoid incomplete backup due to locked files.

To restore the Management Server files

1. Install the Operating System. Use the same version, host name (recommended for ease of configuration), and architecture as was installed before the backup.
2. Install the same version of Data Insight that was installed before the backup.
3. Select the option to install the Management Server role while installing Data Insight .
4. Specify the original location of the \DataInsight\data directory as the previous install. 
5. Complete the installation. Do not start the services at this time; clear the Start services now option when the installer prompts for it.
6. Delete the \DataInsight\data folder that is created as a part of the new installation and copy the backed up data to this location.
7. Start the Data Insight services.
8. Check the status of the services and ensure that they come to running state.

   Successful start of all services indicates that the Management Server is successfully restored.

To restore the Management Server with a different host name, please refer to the associated KB article below.

Related Articles:

How to Migrate the Management Server to a New System:

https://supportenterprisevault.cloud.com/support-home/kbsearch/article?articleNumber=100063621

Selecting the backup and restore order

To maintain consistency in the configuration data during backup, the backup Data Insight components in the following order:

• Nodes with Indexer role

• Management Server

Restore the Data Insight components in the following order:

• Management Server

• Nodes with Indexer role

How to backup and restore the Data Insight Management Server