Hi John,

Assuming you are trying to recreate another Apps 10 UPD7 environment, you can use IFS backup & restore utility to avoid starting from the initial version included in your Apps 10 build.

You can get detailed info covering all backup and restore scenarios under the following IFS Technical Documentation Section:

Good luck!

@Srikanth Thank you so much for the information, I didn’t know that this actually existed.  I have successfully backed up the MWS instance using the create_backup script and noticed that there was a move_backup script. 

How would I transfer the backup file to another server?

Regards

John

This feature was introduced back in Apps 9 and quite handy to create environments at the same patch level as the source environment.

If your Backup process ran correctly, you should have a compressed ZIP file with the following folder structure:

1. You can move this ZIP file to the server where the new MWS instance (Target) needs to be created and extract the files using 7zip. 

2. Run the installer.cmd and select Delete Instance as it should point to the originally backed up instance (Source). IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are trying to create the new instance (Target) on the same Application Server where the backup was taken, this option may not work as Delete instance will remove Source instance, where the backup ran against. 
3. Now run the installer.cmd and pick Create New instance option to configure a new instance - Target and go through with all the steps involved in creating a new MWS instance.

@skgurram Should the MWS servers be stopped prior to taking the backup?

@Srikanth if I am wanting to use the same certificate what should I do when running:

update_http_certificates.cmd

Thank you.

Hi John,

You don’t need to stop MWS services for the backup.

Yes, you can use update_http_certificates.cmd to apply certificate or configure the new instance using self signed certificate first, get it up and running and then run a reconfiguration to apply the cert.

You can use the “keepOhsCert” parameter and use the same certificate. Just make sure the certificate is also copied to the given path in the configuration.xml.