{"id":1437,"date":"2024-07-10T01:51:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T01:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craftcookcode.com\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2025-10-16T23:16:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:16:28","slug":"qlik-replicate-quickly-backing-up-the-data-directory-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftcookcode.com\/?p=1437","title":{"rendered":"Qlik Replicate \u2013 Quickly backing up the Data directory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just a short post on a trick I learnt when upgrading a whole lot of QR boxes on Windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of the upgrade process; you need to back up the data directory encase you need to back out the  upgrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Data directory by default is located in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

C:\\Program Files\\Attunity\\Replicate\\data\\<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Using the inbuilt Windows compression tool (to me) seems slow and sometime unreliable; especially if there is a large amount of data staged when QR was turned off to do the upgrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then I remember that 7zip can be used from the command line.  Also an added feature is that 7zip can exclude certain directories so the often large \u201clog\u201d directory can be excluded.<\/p>\n\n\n
\n7z a -r -t7z "C:\\Program Files\\Attunity\\Replicate\\data.7z" "C:\\Program Files\\Attunity\\Replicate\\data\\*.*" -xr!logs\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n
This command can also be used in automating the QR upgrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Update – Excluding the minidumps directory<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Underneath the data directory is a folder called minidumps.  It contains dumps when a QR task crashes and used for diagnostics.  Some of these files can be quite large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For a backup – the folder can be ignored; making the archive process run quicker.<\/p>\n\n\n
\n7z a -r -t7z "C:\\Program Files\\Attunity\\Replicate\\data.7z" "C:\\Program Files\\Attunity\\Replicate\\data\\*.*" -xr!logs -xr!minidumps\n<\/pre><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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