Dear all, Does anyone know what is the best practice in terms of dat

Hi Lins,

You can take the backup of kdb files which will help in storing the running instances and their behaviour at that time. if you are taking kdb backup you dont require application backup as you can get it from kdb as well. for further details refer to the following link.

forum.appian.com/.../Data_Maintenance.html

Hi Sumeetk,

Thank you for your comment. Where can I find the kdb files? I didn't see any options under "Processes".
Thank you very much for your expertise!

Hi Lins,

The link which I have given is on the server side, not on the Application Website. You need to login to your server where you are running Appian and from their you can perform all the activities mentioned in the link which I shared earlier.

Please refer to the below link which is having all the KDB paths,
forum.appian.com/.../Migrating_Appian_Engines.html

Hi Harshav,

Thanks a lot for the info. Haven't quite figured it out yet but I'll try.

Lin do you want to backup the Appian process data and business data, the Applications, or all of Appian for recovery purposes?

Hi Margaret,
Thanks for your reply! I actually would like to backup all of Appian for recovery purposes.

Lin I would start with reading this link for Appian backup procedures
forum.appian.com/.../Configuring_Backup_and_Restoration.html
There is also a server guide and an web guide in the documentation that would help with Administering Appian

Hi Margaret, thank very much for the link-it's very helpful. I wanted to confirm if I understood that right. Looks like I just need to copy and paste the code listed in the article to the apian admin's folder. Is that the case? Thanks a lot for sharing your expertise!

echo off
call ../../../../server/_scripts/exports.bat
set INSTALLDIR=%AE_HOME%/_admin/_scripts/tools/datamaintenance/antScripts
ant -f %INSTALLDIR%/aecopyfiles.xml -Dae.source.location=%AE_HOME% -Dae.dest.location="c:/ae_backups" -Dae.datadelete="n" -Dae.copycontents="y" -Dkdb.num="1" -Dkdb.invertselect="y" -Dbatchmode="y"
echo on

That is correct.... but you will also need to backup all external databases seperately. As this script will only backup Appian kdb's and Appian application data. Then you would want to test the backups to ensure that they ran sucessfully and that you can restore your system.