Back up and restore HCL Accelerate#
You can roll back to previous version of HCL™ Accelerate using the back up and restore procedure of HCL Accelerate.
To back up and restore HCL Accelerate complete the following steps:
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Back up the mongo database.
Use one mongo database to manage multiple mongo database which are associated to each service.
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Run
mongodump
with host and port to take back up of velocity.mongodump --host=mongoInstanceAddress --port=27017 --out=/opt/backup/velocity-YYYY-MM-DD
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Save the dump file.
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Run
mongorestore
with--drop
to restore dump file.mongorestore --host mongoInstanceAddress --port 27017 --drop /backup/dump
Note: The
mongorestore
command can add and replace the existing dump file data but it will not delete the existing dump file data. Use--drop
flag withmongorestore
to delete the existing dump file data and restore the dump file data.
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Back up the environmental variables
To avoid loss of data, it is advised to back up the environmental variable values.
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Save all deployment environmental variable values.
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Restore all deployment environmental variable values.
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Parent topic: Upgrading