Backing Up the Database

Important: OpenText strongly recommends backing up the database on a regular basis. This task is especially important for a single-node environment where K-safety = 0.

OpenText provides a comprehensive utility, the vbr Python script, that lets you back up, restore, list backups, and copy your database. You can create full and incremental database backups of specific schemas or tables to use with a multi-tenant database. Using vbr, you can save your data to a variety of locations:

Create regular backups of your data by running vbr from a cron job or other task scheduler.