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Restoring the CMS

These instructions describe how to restore the CMS to a point-in-time. You may need to do this if your CMS suffers a hardware failure, for example.

How to restore the CMS

1. Stop the CA Data Protection infrastructure. Use the Computer Management utility in Windows. Expand the Services group and stop the service ‘CA Data Protection Infrastructure’.

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

   net stop wgninfra
   

2. Re-import the master encryption registry key. This is the registry key used by the original installation. Run wgnmgmt.exe on the CMS server. The command line syntax is:

   wgnmgmt i <filename> <password>
   

   Where <filename> and <password> are the backup file and password you specified during the General backup tasks.

3. Restore the CA Data Protection data folder. Use your normal data-recovery procedures to restore the CA Data Protection data folder to your CMS. You can restore it to any suitable location on your network, and give it any name. You specify the name and location when you reinstall CA Data Protection (step 5).
4. Restore the CMS database. The procedure depends on your database engine:
   • For Oracle databases, create a recovery job for your CA Data Protection database using the Recovery wizard. See your Oracle documentation for details.
   • For SQL Server databases, restore your CA Data Protection database using the SQL Server Database Restore feature. See your SQL Server documentation for details.

   Note: If you are restoring after a complete system failure, you must recreate a login for CA Data Protection to use. For details, see the SQL Server guidelines in the Database Guide.

5. Reinstall CA Data Protection on the CMS server. Use the CA Data Protection installation wizard.
   • In the Database Accounts screen, enter the name and password for the login that CA Data Protection 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:

General Backup Tasks