Hello,
we have by mistake deleted an element being part of many services. So now the services do not contain that element. Manual reconfiguration is an option but would take significant time as many services are affected. I know there is also possibility to take the contents from Recycle Bin or from the one day old full backup we have available. I’d need to investigate how to perform this correctly.
Other option is to restore the DMA completely from the full backup we have. But, looking into docs it seems to be also not a “two-click” job as the DMA needs to be prepared before restoring.
My question is if restoring the dmbackup to the same DMA agent using e.g. the taskbar utility really requires the agent to be cleaned before restoration. In the Administrator course there is no mention of such a preparation work to be done.
Hi Milos,
If you restore a backup on the same machine, in other words you overwrite the same config with just a version from a few days earlier, you should indeed be fine without a full clean of the DMA.
The full clean is just to make sure nothing remains from the previous configuration. Since your backup is very similar, just a few days older, this should not immediately be a problem. E.g. protocols or documents added in meantime, might after the restore still be there and not removed as it was a ‘few days ago’.
Also note that a .dmbackup file can be renamed to a .zip file. Then you can unzip this and also manually take files from it to restore parts of it. Then you have to be careful on what exactly you restore of course and that everything is consistent…
And you can of course always contact our techsupport to help you out on this one.
Bert
Hi Bert,
thank you for the answer.
Indeed, I did it the way of unzipping the .dmabackup and using affected files (Element.xml and Service.xml(s)) from there.
I only did it on main DMA of a failover pair which is fine now. I assumed the backup DMA of the pair will automatically synchronize the changes but it didn’t (except Views.xml). So I’m going to do it for the backup DMA manually too.
Anyway, thanks a lot for the answer!
Milos