BI Acclerator Blade servers backups

Hi,
We have BIA running on HP blade servers and currently we have a procedue where they are taking
backup with some scripts and the scripts are generating some initiator files. ( which are some files on each blade server)
But can anybody provide me the info. how these initiator files are useful in backup / restoration of BIA.
The documentation of SAP shows a different procedure for backup/ restore.
BR,
DVRK

Not really sure what do you mean by "initiators"... in anycase if you are talking about BI Accelerator Backup Blades is a HA solution for enterprise search, so you should stick to the TREX backup/restore procedures IMO.
Read,
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_smehp1/helpdata/en/48/3d60b9c0dd4bb9e10000000a42189b/content.htm
In anycase I have no experience under this particular subjects so I let others lead the way... do please add as much info as possible to the thread so Its easier to follow.
Regards
Juan

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