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Restore the Domain from Backups

CA Process Automation can fail due to data corruption, misconfiguration, or loss of storage on a clustered Domain Orchestrator. You can recover from such a failure and restore your data to CA Process Automation.

You can restore your use of CA Process Automation after a failure. The approach is to perform a fresh install of the Domain Orchestrator, which you shut down as soon as it is installed. You replace the empty databases with your database backups and restore your configuration file from a backup. Then you start CA Process Automation and verify that the restored data is in place.

Follow these steps:

1. Prepare for installation. Refer to the Installation Guide as you complete the following preparation:
   • Verify that the hardware, operating system, and database engine are installed.
   • Verify that the required third-party components are installed.
   • Install and configure CA EEM.
2. Perform a fresh install of CA Process Automation as described in the Installation Guide.
3. Add nodes as needed to reflect the original cluster. See the Installation Guide for details.
4. Stop CA Process Automation.
5. Restore your system from backups.
   1. Replace the repository database, runtime database, and reporting database with their respective database backups.
   2. Rename the current .config folder in:

      install_dir/server/c2o/.config
      

   3. Restore the following from the backup:

      install_dir/server/c2o/.config
      

6. Start CA Process Automation.
7. Verify that your configuration has been restored.
8. Verify that your database data is intact.