Maxl scripts to perform backup of the following

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Help me with these (Maxl script to do these backups)
     How to take Backup of filters (use maxl script to get filter information of all native cubes).
     Since we use xref calc a lot so we need to backup information of location alias.     
We have partitioning so we need to get partition information backed up.

Answer 1

Hi,
Filter information is stored in the essbase.sec file so it is good start to make sure that is being backed up.
As for extracting filter information by maxl you can do it with something like :-
login admin password on localhost;
spool on to 'c:\temp\filters.txt';
display filter row all;
spool off;
logout;
or if you want to narrow the filter down to a database use
display filter row app.db;
You will also need to change the column width to fit all the filter in e.g.
set column_width 50;
You can also dump the whole security file to a text file if you wanted which includes all the filter information (from 9.3.1)
export security_file to data_file C:\temp\sec_file.txt;
I take it your partitions don't change very often so you can easily just export the partition to xml from EAS, depending on what you are on.
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/