PeopleSoft - Backup and Restore scripts for PeopleSoft implementation using MS-SQL 2012?

I am working for a county government as a consultant for PeopleSoft using SQL Server. When they restore a DEV instance from PROD, they have to manually stop the web server, app server and batch server, then they do the restore. Afterward they have to change
all references to PROD in the cloned DEV instance. Everything is done manually and takes a couple of hours.
Can anyone point me to scripts for PeopleSoft restores that automate bringing down/up the web, app and batch servers and all the other tasks so they don't have to be done manually?
Life is hard, but it's harder when you're stupid! John 'Duke' Wayne

This question should be posted on PeopleSoft support forum. That being said, a quick search on the internet will provide helpful links like below: http://www.erpassociates.com/peoplesoft-corner-wiki/peoplesoft-administration/cloning-a-peoplesoft-database.html
Satish Kartan www.sqlfood.com

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quit;
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RMAN> list backup of database;
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
List of Backup Sets
===================
BS Key Type LV Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
89 Full 261.87M DISK 00:01:37 28-SEP-11
BP Key: 91 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: YES Tag: TAG20110928T171638
Piece Name: /export/home/dev/restore_db/backupset/o1_mf_nnndf_TAG2011092
8T171638_787g77rx_.bkp
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File LV Type Ckp SCN Ckp Time Name
1 Full 1813849 28-SEP-11 /oracle/app/dev/oradata/forums/system01.dbf
2 Full 1813849 28-SEP-11 /oracle/app/dev/oradata/forums/sysaux01.dbf
3 Full 1813849 28-SEP-11 /oracle/app/dev/oradata/forums/undotbs01.dbf
4 Full 1813849 28-SEP-11 /oracle/app/dev/oradata/forums/users01.dbf
BS Key Type LV Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
97 Full 259.16M DISK 00:00:00 28-SEP-11
BP Key: 100 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: YES Tag: TAG20110928T18352
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Piece Name: /export/home/dev/restore_db/backupset/backupset2/o1_mf_nnndf
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List of Datafiles in backup set 97
File LV Type Ckp SCN Ckp Time Name
1 Full 1816853 28-SEP-11 /oracle/app/dev/oradata/forums/system01.dbf
2 Full 1816853 28-SEP-11 /oracle/app/dev/oradata/forums/sysaux01.dbf
3 Full 1816853 28-SEP-11 /oracle/app/dev/oradata/forums/undotbs01.dbf
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1 38 1311393 20-SEP-11 1311511 20-SEP-11
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1 40 1332479 20-SEP-11 1344418 20-SEP-11
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1 42 1350409 20-SEP-11 1350449 20-SEP-11
1 43 1350449 20-SEP-11 1350854 21-SEP-11
1 44 1350854 21-SEP-11 1350895 21-SEP-11
1 45 1350895 21-SEP-11 1353114 21-SEP-11
1 46 1353114 21-SEP-11 1353254 21-SEP-11
1 47 1353254 21-SEP-11 1353865 21-SEP-11
1 48 1353865 21-SEP-11 1353988 21-SEP-11
1 49 1353988 21-SEP-11 1375403 21-SEP-11
1 50 1375403 21-SEP-11 1376149 21-SEP-11
1 51 1376149 21-SEP-11 1376206 21-SEP-11
1 52 1376206 21-SEP-11 1376246 21-SEP-11
1 53 1376246 21-SEP-11 1379990 21-SEP-11
1 54 1379990 21-SEP-11 1380229 21-SEP-11
1 55 1380229 21-SEP-11 1380266 21-SEP-11
1 56 1380266 21-SEP-11 1380528 21-SEP-11
1 57 1380528 21-SEP-11 1380724 21-SEP-11
1 58 1380724 21-SEP-11 1380861 21-SEP-11
1 59 1380861 21-SEP-11 1381033 21-SEP-11
1 60 1381033 21-SEP-11 1381077 21-SEP-11
1 61 1381077 21-SEP-11 1402243 22-SEP-11
1 62 1402243 22-SEP-11 1423341 22-SEP-11
1 63 1423341 22-SEP-11 1435456 22-SEP-11
1 64 1435456 22-SEP-11 1454415 23-SEP-11
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1 66 1490903 23-SEP-11 1491266 23-SEP-11
1 67 1491266 23-SEP-11 1491347 23-SEP-11
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1 69 1492761 23-SEP-11 1492891 23-SEP-11
1 70 1492891 23-SEP-11 1493678 23-SEP-11
1 71 1493678 23-SEP-11 1493704 23-SEP-11
1 72 1493704 23-SEP-11 1494741 23-SEP-11
1 73 1494741 23-SEP-11 1494790 23-SEP-11
1 74 1494790 23-SEP-11 1510154 23-SEP-11
1 75 1510154 23-SEP-11 1514286 23-SEP-11
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1 88 1669259 26-SEP-11 1686820 26-SEP-11
1 89 1686820 26-SEP-11 1686959 26-SEP-11
1 90 1686959 26-SEP-11 1689168 26-SEP-11
1 91 1689168 26-SEP-11 1704759 26-SEP-11
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1 93 1719597 27-SEP-11 1740407 27-SEP-11
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1 95 1750125 27-SEP-11 1765592 27-SEP-11
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I am wondering if I can pick people's brains here if that's not too much trouble.
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I am confident I know what to do should the mailbox database become corrupted or lost or need to be restored for one reason or another (it would just be a case of restoring the backed up mailbox database using DPM to a pre-created recovery database), what
I am not quite so sure on is what I would do should I lose one or both of the multi-role CAS and MBX servers (the third CAS I am not so worried about as it is not used for incoming mail flow from the internet and we really only use it for ECP as we did not
want to expose this to the internet). I wonder what process should follow to restore my Exchange servers (I know how to perform the Bare Metal recoveries using WSB) and what configuration would be required after restoring the Bare Metal backups.
I know this is a reasonably long question but if anyone has any advice for me I would appreciate it greatly in the unlikely event something goes horribly wrong with my Exchange environment.
Thanks in advance

Hi,
Yes, Most of the configuration settings are stored in AD. Mail data and personal related data are store in Mailbox DB. We just need to take consideration of these two points.
Thanks,
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I have implemented synchronization in local on two instances and worked well for me. But when I am trying to implement the same in Prod server, it is giving exception backup and restore errors. Please let me know, is it possible to implement Synchronization
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Hi Moorthy2015,
According to your description, you get issue when sychronizing SSAS database server. Right?
In Analysis Services, it is supported to do sychronization for SSAS databases between different instances on same server. We can also sychronize two different SSAS servers. So in this scenario, you can do sychronization between Pro server and Dev server.
Please refer to links below:
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Hi,
I was hoping for a bit of clarity regarding this topic.
As I understand it, there are two sides of MySites, the Site Collections that are created through self-service site creation for users content, and then service application that provisions the site profiles.
For site profiles, I believe that the Farm Backup and Restore procedure in Central Administration takes care of this, and a backup and restore can be done by selecting the service application in the long list of tick boxes available in the Farm Backup options.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
For the Site Collections, as far as I can tell, you can either back them up individually using the SharePoint native backup tool (not feasible for thousands of site collections), backup the content db using SQL backup, or Powershell. As far as I can tell,
this has the limitation of only allowing you to backup and restore ALL sites collections at once, not individual site collections. Is this correct?
If so, is there a way of backing up the site collections so that an individual site collection can be restored should it be required, without having to painstakingly backup all the site collections individually? I didn't know if there was a script for this
or failing that a 3rd party tool.
Any thoughts and input would be much appreciated.

Re: SQL backups, yes. When you attach the content database it attaches all the site collections in the database.
There is no out of the box method to restore individual site collections unless you perform individual site collection backups. You can automate this with PowerShell.
Something like this would work:
$mysites = Get-SPSite -Webapplication "My Sites"
$Path = "\\path\to\place\backups\"
foreach ($site in $mysite) {
$filename = $($site.ServerRelativeUrl -replace "/", "_") + ".bak"
Backup-SPSite -Identity $site -Path $($Path + $filename)
This creates a site collection backup of every site collection in the My Sites Webapplication (you could customize this as necessary for your environment). Note that it replaces forward slashes ("/") in the site collection URL with underscores
("_") as you can't have the slashes in a filename.
This is a quick and dirty script as well. You'd probably want to add outputs or set the site locks, or whatever.
Alternatively, most third-party SharePoint backup solutions offer more granulated restore options -- with a single backup you can restore everything that an OOB backup would contain, plus you can get lower within the content -- so site collections, sites,
lists, libraries, items, documents.
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