topic Re: webgisdr versus datastore backup in ArcGIS Enterprise Portal Questions

webgisdr versus datastore backup

DeanHowell1 — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 23:33:18 GMT

If we are using webgisdr to do full and incremental backups, is there any need to have the datastore backup as well?

The datastore backups on our system located in D:\arcgisdatastore\backup are consuming a large amount of space and just not sure why the files are there and if they are needed if we are using webgisdr.

Can anyone tell me the difference and if there is a need to to keep the datastore backup?

Thanks

Dean

Re: webgisdr versus datastore backup

JonathanQuinn — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 00:24:55 GMT

There's really no need to continue to create Data Store backups since backups for Enterprise need to capture everything at a single point of time. The only argument for both types is if you only have to restore data from hosted services. The challenge, though, is there's a chance you may be left with services that are missing data if those services have been published after the last backup of the Data Store.

Re: webgisdr versus datastore backup

DeanHowell1 — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 04:28:10 GMT

Thanks @JonathanQuinn I appreciate you taking the time to reply. How do you turn off the data store backups?

Re: webgisdr versus datastore backup

JonathanQuinn — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 15:48:55 GMT

You can use the updatebackupschedule utility:

https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/data-store/latest/install/windows/data-store-utility-reference.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_2F9F67BEEF7E48E1A4B1CF8BA373AC76

To disable automatic backups, set the frequency to 0.

Re: webgisdr versus datastore backup

MichaelAugust — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 18:00:45 GMT

So if we run into an issue say, during an upgrade to 10.9.1 where our datastore configuration has somehow lost the admin credentials and we need to restore from a backup, can we use the Enterprise backups we've been making to restore just/only the Datastore and fix the config login issue? If you can't tell we're going thru this right now...

Re: webgisdr versus datastore backup

JenRadcliff — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 21:45:16 GMT

MichaelAugust, did you ever get the answer to your question? We're having the same issue.

Re: webgisdr versus datastore backup

MichaelAugust — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 22:53:41 GMT

No, I think if I'm remembering correctly, we had to restore our entire server machine and re-apply the upgrade.