Backing up the Jazz Team Server

Recently I got this question from a customer: “What are the other files in Tomcat we should backup when we backup our JTS databases?”

I was ready to reply the default answer I used to reply with Rational Team Concert 2.x: “Backup tomcat-users.xml, teamserver.propertiesserver.xml files.
Then I realized that the answer might be too short for RTC 3.x and the new associated topology so I decided to bother my L3 support colleague (and friend!), Eric Jodet.

Eric kindly sent me a folder containing the list of the files backed up by IBM Install Manager when it upgrades RTC and I realized that I was very far from the reality with my 3 initial files.

It is for this reason I decided to share this information until we get a page in the CLM help covering this point.

First of all it is important to recall that a CLM 3.x topology requires an extra database: JTS. So, for RTC, to back up our data we now have to back up 3 databases:

• the JTS database,
• the JTS data warehouse database and
• the CCM database

Check out these pages for details:

• Backing up and restoring the Jazz Team Server
• Server Backup/Maintenance

After that, we also have to back up several other files extracted from the Tomcat structure:

   \---server
       |   server.startup.bat
       |
       +---conf
       |   +---ccm
       |   |       log4j.properties
       |   |       scr.xml
       |   |       services.xml
       |   |       teamserver.properties
       |   |
       |   \---jts
       |           log4j.properties
       |           scr.xml
       |           services.xml
       |           teamserver.properties
       |
       \---tomcat
           +---conf
           |   |   catalina.policy
           |   |   catalina.properties
           |   |   context.xml
           |   |   logging.properties
           |   |   server-minimal.xml
           |   |   server.xml
           |   |   tomcat-users.xml
           |   |   web.xml
           |   |
           |   \---Catalina
           |       \---localhost
           |               ccm.xml
           |               host-manager.xml
           |               jts.xml
           |               manager.xml
           |
           \---webapps
               +---ccm
               |   \---WEB-INF
               |           web.xml
               |
               +---clmhelp
               |   \---WEB-INF
               |           web.xml
               |
               \---jts
                   \---WEB-INF
                           web.xml

I hope it will help.