Exports and Backups of CIM
Instances
Use
All SLD data is stored in the J2EE database and is therefore automatically backed up during the database backup. However, from time to time, especially before installing updates, you may want to create SLD-specific data backups.
Features
SLD provides two different mechanisms for data backup:
You can use exports to transport updates of SLD data between two SLD systems. Each export contains information about the changes, both additions and removals, of SLD data since the last export. For example, the updates of the Software Catalog on SAP Service Marketplace are created as an export of the SAP master system. Exports have a version, and you must import them in the same sequence into the target system.
Backups contain only the current state of the SLD. You can use them to restore an SLD system after a crash or to make a mirror image of one SLD system.
You can import both exports and backups into another SLD system.