Backup and Restore

Your installation of PC-lint Plus View includes some scripts designed to help save and restore snapshots of your analysis data. These scripts will allow you to:

The scripts are located in the <PCLPVIEW_HOME>/bin folder of the PC-lint Plus View installation directory.

The backup and restore scripts accept a parameter that is used as the path to store the backup file or to read the backup file from when restoring. This makes it possible to use a scheduled task on Windows or a cron job on Linux to automate your backups. If you do not specify this parameter, the default backup folder will be used and each new backup will replace the previous one.

  • Before launching a backup or restore operation, stop PC-lint Plus View server completely and ensure that the PC-lint Plus View Database is started.

  • Backups can be launched while the server is running, but it is recommended to regularly perform a backup while the server is stopped. This guarantees that the database and the data files are in sync, which may not be the case if your server is started and analyses are running.

  • If your database is not running on the same machine as PC-lint Plus View server, the backup will only include the PC-lint Plus View server data files. When running in this configuration, you need to perform database backup and restore operations manually. In this mode, it is necessary to perform both backups at the same time so that the files data matches the database data.

Backing-Up PC-lint Plus View Data

The contents of the PC-lint Plus View Database and file system can be saved using the backup script from the <PCLPVIEW_HOME>/bin folder.

In order to create a backup, run the backup script for your system, followed optionally by the path where the backup should be created.

<PCLPVIEW_HOME>/bin/backup [$BACKUP_FOLDER]

If you do not pass a BACKUP_FOLDER in your command, the backup location specified in <PCLPVIEW_HOME>/config.xml will be used.

Executing this script creates a folder with a compressed database dump and a backup of the projects and workspace folders. This backup can later be used by a script that restores database and file system snapshots, which we will cover in the next section.

Restoring PC-lint Plus View Data

A previously backed-up PC-lint Plus View snapshot can be restored using the restore script from the <PCLPVIEW_HOME>/bin folder.

In order to restore a backup, run the restore script for your system, followed optionally by the path where the backup to restore is located.

<PCLPVIEW_HOME>/bin/restore [$BACKUP_FOLDER]

If you do not pass a BACKUP_FOLDER in your command, data is restored from the backup location specified in <PCLPVIEW_HOME>/config.xml

The script will clear your current database, projects and workspace folders and replace them with the contents of the backed up data.

Resetting PC-lint Plus View Data

You can reset the data of your PC-lint Plus View installation to its initial state using the sqadm utility from the command line. The tool is located in the <PCLPVIEW_HOME>/bin folder of the PC-lint Plus View installation directory.

This operation cannot be undone. All the projects, roles, users and groups you created will be lost.

  1. Stop PC-lint Plus View server

  2. Ensure that the PC-lint Plus View Database is started

  3. From a terminal, launch the following command:

    sqadm reset

  4. Confirm, and allow the command to finish

  5. Start PC-lint Plus View server

More information about sqadm reset can be found in sqadm reset(1).