Backing up resources

Establish a backup process to preserve the integrity and consistency of your broker domain, and provide a mechanism to restore your components and resources.

Brokers rely on a database manager to maintain and control their configuration data. Brokers, the Configuration Manager, and the User Name Server rely on WebSphere® MQ to transport and guarantee messages between components. You must establish a backup process that includes these sources of information to preserve the integrity and consistency of your broker domain.

It is important that you maintain regular backups of your broker domain and associated databases. You should refer to the information supplied with the database you are using for details of the relevant database backup procedures.

Consult your database administrator and agree upon the:
  • Frequency of backups
  • Quiesce backup points to take
Depending upon your workflow, this can be hourly or daily or weekly.

You should aim to always be in a position to recover to a specific point in time, whatever happens. For example, take a backup of the broker domain and quiesce of the broker databases before installing a new application.

The following topics tell you how to back up and restore brokers, the Configuration Manager and the Message Brokers Toolkit workspace:
Related tasks
Recovering after failure
Related reference
Supported databases
Database contents
mqsicreatebroker command
mqsicreateconfigmgr command
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