The IBM® Integration Toolkit workspaces contain your personal settings and data, such as message flow and message set resources. You can have multiple workspaces in different locations, and you can also have references to projects that are in other locations, therefore consider all these locations when you back up your resources.
The IBM Integration Toolkit workspace directory contains a directory called .metadata, which contains your personal settings and preferences for the IBM Integration Toolkit. If the .metadata directory gets corrupted, you lose these settings, and the IBM Integration Toolkit reverts to the default layout and preferences. If you have not backed up the .metadata directory, you must manually set all preferences again, and import all projects, such as message flow projects, that were displayed in the Application Development view. To back up the .metadata directory, take a copy of the directory.
The IBM Integration Toolkit workspace also contains a directory for each project (for example, a message flow project) that you have created in the IBM Integration Toolkit. These directories contain your data, which you must back up.
Use one of the following methods to back up the data in your workspace.
If you want to restore the resources, copy the directories
back into your workspace directory and import the projects. For instructions,
see Importing in
the Eclipse Workbench User Guide.