Automatic or scripted backup of appset (application set)

Hi experts,
I'm currently using BPC 7.5 MS and I try to schedule an automatic backup in the same way I can manually backup an appset with server manager.
Unfortunately, I don't find any script or method allowing to doing this task.
Is there a way to script the backup task?
Regards,
Guillaume

Hello Guillaume,
There is no built-in BPC script/task to backup AppSets the way Server Manager does.
However, you can create an SSIS package to perform a similar backup. All you need to do is:
- backup SQL Server database
- backup SSAS database
- backup AppSet folder in FileDB
- backup AppSet folder in Webfolders
You can Zip folders as well. Beneficially, you can use SQL Server backup compression. And to make it work similar to Server Manager backup, you can stop "OutlookSoft SendGovernor Service" prior to backups and start it after completion.
Hope that helps,
Akim
P.S. on another hand, you might want to have a separate SQL Server database backup with transaction logs to improve recoverability. So, I'd just go with separate backups for SQL Server DBs, SSAS DBs and folders.
Edited by: Akim Zubarchuk on Feb 16, 2012 10:06 AM

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