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Restoring a CMS

These instructions describe how to restore to a point‑in‑time. You may want to do this, for example, if you suffer a hardware failure on the CMS machine.

1. Stop the CA DLP infrastructure

   Using the Computer Management utility in Windows, expand the Services group and stop the service ‘CA DLP Infrastructure’.

   Or you can stop the infrastructure service from a command line:

   net stop wgninfra
   

2. Re-import the data management registry key

   This is the key used by the original installation. On the CMS machine, run wgnmgmt.exe. The command line syntax is:

   wgnmgmt i [set the File Name variable] <password>
   

   Where [set the File Name variable] and <password> are the backup file and password you specified in Back up the master encryption key.

3. Restore the CA DLP data folder

   Using your normal data-recovery procedures, restore the CA DLP data folder to your CMS machine. You can restore it to any suitable location on your network, and give it any name. You simply specify the name and location when you reinstall CA DLP (step 5).

4. Restore the CMS database

   The procedure depends on your database engine:

   • For Oracle databases, create a recovery job for your CA DLP database using the Recovery wizard. See your Oracle documentation for details.
   • For SQL Server databases, restore your CA DLP database using the SQL Server Database Restore feature. For details, see your SQL Server documentation.

   Note: If you are restoring after a complete system failure, you must recreate a login for CA DLP to use. See the Database guide for details; search the index for ‘Oracle accounts’ and ‘SQL Server login properties’.

5. Reinstall CA DLP on the CMS server

   Use the CA DLP installation wizard:

   • In the Database Type screen, enter the name and password for the login that CA DLP will use to manage the CMS database.
   • In the Data Folder screen, specify the name and location of the data folder that you previously recovered in step 3.

More information:

Back Up the Master Encryption Key