Restore a backup

In this section, we describe how to restore a backup that was created in the same Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud version as your current version.

Warning If you restore a backup, you will lose all your current Collibra data.

Steps

  1. Open Collibra Console with a user profile that has at least the ADMIN role.
    Collibra Console opens with the Infrastructure page.
  2. In the main menu, click Backups.
    The backups page appears.
  3. Click Restore in the row of the backup that you want to restore.
  4. Fill in the Restore from backup form:
    OptionDescription
    EnvironmentSelect the environment in which you want to restore the backup.
    BackupSelect the backup that you want to restore.
    Include

    You can restore a backup fully or partially.

    Note The backup itself should include the items you select below. For example, if the backup does not contain the configuration and you include configuration for restoring the backup, it will be restored successfully, though without the configuration.

     Data
    		Select to include the core (database) data from the backup. This is all the data related to communities, domains, assets, users, operating model and so on.
     History
    		Select to include all historic data (activity and snapshot-related) from the backup.
     Configuration

    Select to include the configuration and license from the backup.

    Warning Do not select this option if you restore a backup from another environment, as this will overwrite the configuration of your current environment. It can prevent your environment from starting up again.

     Customizations

    Select to include custom modules, styling, page-definitions and email template files.

    This will add files to the Collibra user home directory and files that are used to customize the Collibra DGC instance (/opt/collibra_data/console/config). This concerns all the files in the following directories:

    • email-templates
    • groovy-lib
    • images
    • page-definitions
    • security
    • styling
    • translations
    • modules (if available)

  5. Click Restore backup.
  6. Click Close.

What's next?

If the configuration file is restored, the database connection information in the backup is ignored. In other words, the restore process makes sure that the entire backed-up configuration is applied to the current configuration without modifying the current database connection. This means that the existing database connection is used to restore the data. Also, after the restore, the Collibra instance continues to use the same database connection.

Note 
  • You cannot restore a backup from a Collibra environment that is using a database with a case-sensitive collation sequence into a Collibra environment that is using a database with a collation sequence that is not case-sensitive. If you want to use backup and restore to migrate Collibra content, ask your database administrator to determine whether the collation sequences of the databases used by your source and target Collibra environments are compatible.
  • If you restore a backup without the history, Collibra does not restore the activity stream as it was. Instead, it creates the entries in the activity stream as if they were done by the System User on the restore date.
  • You can also use the restore functionality to promote content from one Collibra environment to another if the environments run the same version.