WebSphere Application Server - Backing up profiles

I've probably written about this before ….

WebSphere Application Server (WAS) has a neat-o tool for backing WAS profiles, specifically backupConfig.sh, which can be executed against a profile, and which saves the entire profile configuration to a .ZIP file.

There are actually several copies of this script: -

find /opt/ibm/WebSphere/ -name backupConfig.sh

/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/bin/backupConfig.sh
/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/Dmgr02/bin/backupConfig.sh
/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/AppSrv02/bin/backupConfig.sh
/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/Dmgr01/bin/backupConfig.sh
/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/AppSrv01/bin/backupConfig.sh

*BUT* the versions that are are located within the profiles merely reference the original, which is located in the WAS bin directory: -

cat /opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/Dmgr02/bin/backupConfig.sh

#!/bin/sh
binDir=`dirname ${0}`
. ${binDir}/setupCmdLine.sh
${WAS_HOME}/bin/backupConfig.sh "$@"

The script has several parameters: -

/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/Dmgr02/bin/backupConfig.sh -help

Usage: backupConfig [backup_file] [-nostop] [-quiet] [-logfile <filename>]
           [-replacelog] [-trace] [-username <username>] [-password <password>]
           [-profileName <profile>] [-help]

Cleverly, *IF* one chooses to run the script from the profile root: -

/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/Dmgr02/bin/backupConfig.sh

then the script ONLY backs up that profile.

Note that there is also a -nostop option - this is NOT the default.

Therefore, if one runs this: -

/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/bin/backupConfig.sh -profileName Dmgr02

ADMU0116I: Tool information is being logged in file
           /opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/Dmgr02/logs/backupConfig.log
ADMU0128I: Starting tool with the Dmgr02 profile
ADMU5001I: Backing up config directory
           /opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/Dmgr02/config to file
           /home/wasadmin/WebSphereConfig_2018-08-21_2.zip
ADMU0505I: Servers found in configuration:
ADMU0506I: Server name: dmgr
ADMU2010I: Stopping all server processes for node Dmgr
Realm/Cell Name: <default>
Username: 

any JVMs running within that profile will automatically be stopped …….

Thankfully, the prompt for credentials saves us BUT it's worth remembering that this is a risk.

The other nice thing is that one can override the backup file path/name to, for example, include a date stamp: -

echo "$(date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")"

20180821_123458

as follows: -

/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/bin/backupConfig.sh "/home/wasadmin/Dmgr01_Backup_$(date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S").zip" -profileName Dmgr01 -nostop 

ADMU0116I: Tool information is being logged in file
           /opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/Dmgr01/logs/backupConfig.log
ADMU0128I: Starting tool with the Dmgr01 profile
ADMU5001I: Backing up config directory
           /opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/Dmgr01/config to file
           /home/wasadmin/Dmgr01_Backup_20180821_123603.zip
.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
ADMU5002I: 1,879 files successfully backed up

ls -alh /home/wasadmin/Dmgr01_Backup_20180821_123603.zip

-rw-r--r-- 1 wasadmin wasadmins 551M Aug 21 12:36 /home/wasadmin/Dmgr01_Backup_20180821_123603.zip

This would be useful if, for example, one wished to create regular backups, perhaps via cron, without stopping the JVMs i.e. using the -nostop option.