Backing up Portal

ArcGIS Enterprise ships with a Java utility called webgisdr that can be used to back up and restore portal items and settings, GIS services and settings, and the ArcGIS Data Store managed database (relational data store) and hosted scene layer cache (tile cache data store). When using the webgisdr utility, there are requirements and considerations:

• The utility requires Java 1.7+ to run. The JAVA_HOME operating system environmental variable must be set to the Java installation directory on the machine that webgisdr will run from.
• The utility is version dependent, meaning that the deployment you restore must be the same version from which the backup was created.
• The utility can create both full and incremental backups, where an incremental contains all changes made since the last full backup.
• The utility does not back up the following (backup of these items is discussed shortly):
  • Map service cache tiles and hosted tile layer caches
  • File-based and enterprise data sources used by...