Backing Up Sisense

The backup process for Sisense requires backing up your ElastiCube s and the Sisense Web Application. In addition, if you have customized your environment, you may want to back up your customizations as well.

This topic describes how to back up your ElastiCubes, the Sisense Web Application, and any customizations you may have made.

Save Custom Configurations

While Sisense preserves your configuration between upgrades, it is a best practice to backup configuration files for any custom configurations you may have in your environment.

The list below includes possible custom configurations that you should back up if you’ve implemented:

• SSL: If you have configured secure connections to Sisense, you should back up your SSL certificates. See Setting Up SSL for Sisense Windows for more information.
• SSO: If your users sign in through SSO, you should back up your SSO configuration. See Introduction to SSO for more information.
• Add-ons: If you have implemented any custom add-ons, you should back these up. See Backing Up the Sisense Web Application Step 6 above for more information.
• Metadata Translations: If you have translated Sisense metadata, you should back up your translations. See Translating Sisense Metadata on Windows for more information.
• Rebranded Email Templates: If you have customized Sisense’s automated emails, you should back up your templates. See Rebranding Sisense Automated Emails in Windows for more information.
• Message Broker: If you have implemented high availability for the message broker, you should back up the configuration. See Replicating the Message Broker for more information.

Virtual Machines

If your Sisense environment is hosted on a virtual machine, you should save an image of your environment and save it in a safe location. If you create an image, you do not need to back up the other custom configuration files described above.

Save Sisense Assets

In addition to your ElastiCube s, dashboards, and any custom configuration files you have backed up, you should also collect information about your environment so you can verify that your system is fully functional after upgrading Sisense.

It is recommended that you note the number of dashboards, ElastiCube s, users, and groups you have. Having this information will help you later on when you verify the success of your upgrade.

You can see the complete list of your Users, Groups, and Data Sources in the Admin page.

For a list of dashboards, see the Analytics page in List view.

Backing Up Your ElastiCubes

Your ElastiCube Server contains information about your ElastiCube s, including the schema and the data that was imported when the ElastiCube was built. This information is saved in a collection of folders stored in the ElastiCube Data folder. The files and folders in the ElastiCube Data must be saved and their structured maintained to ensure your implementation will work as expected on the migrated machine.

To back up your ElastiCubes:

1. In Windows Services, stop Sisense.ECMS .

   

2. Open the directory:

   %ProgramData%\Sisense\PrismServer\ElastiCubeData

   Note:

   This is the default path. To check which path is being used, open the Sisense Server Console and click on the Server Preferences icon to verify the correct path.

   

3. Copy the data to your backup location.

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