Backing up your system
When installing an application, back up your system after each step to ensure that you can revert to the last working version of the system if you encounter an issue.
- Verify that all rules are checked in.
- Shut down the Pega Platform application server.
- Use your database utilities to complete an offline backup of the Pega database.
- Back up the configuration and environment files.If you edited any of the following Pega Platform configuration files in the
APP-INF\classes
directory of an EAR deployment or theWEB-INF\classes
directory of a WAR deployment, include these files in the backup:prbootstrap.properties
prconfig.xml
- logging file:
prlogging.xml
orprlog4j2.xml
web.xml
pegarules.keyring
or any other.keyring
files
- Back up any third-party or custom JAR files that you installed.Redeploying the Pega Platform applications might delete these files from your application server.
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