Backup & Disaster Recovery

What to back up and how to recover Rapid BI Catalog.

BackupDRAdmin only

A complete backup of Rapid BI Catalog is small but critical. Back up the application-data directories and your installation files, store them securely, and you can recover the application on the same or a new server.

What to Back Up

Application Data

Back up these two directories. They hold all of your application data — including sensitive information — so store the backups securely:

Directory
~/.bicatalog
~/.config/bicatalog
Store these backups securely
These directories contain the data Rapid BI Catalog needs to run, including the key that protects your encrypted data. Keep the backups secure and separate from the server — if the only copy is lost, the encrypted data cannot be recovered. See Data Privacy & Encryption.

Installation Files

Also back up the Rapid BI Catalog installation files (the installed build). If you accepted the default location during installation, they are under /usr/local/lib. If you chose a custom location, find it with:

Terminal
which bicatalog              # shows the command location (a symlink)
readlink $(which bicatalog)   # resolves it to the actual installation path

Restoring

  1. Install Rapid BI Catalog on the target machine (or restore your backed-up installation files to the same path).
  2. Restore the two application-data directories to the same locations they were backed up from.
  3. Start the service. Because your application data is preserved, the app reads your restored data without re-activation.
Restore to the same paths
Restore the application-data directories to their original locations. The server will not start if its application data is missing.

Next Steps