Back Up and Restore

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

This section contains information about backing up and restoring the Alation application on customer-managed (on-prem) instances.

Alation either automatically creates backups daily (default) or runs the backup process on a user-defined custom schedule.

The backup and restoration steps require access to the backend of the Alation server.

This section covers:

• Information about the backup process and tools

• The backup steps

• The restoration steps

• Information on configuring and maintaining backups

• Recommendations on how to restore the Alation Analytics

• Recommendations on how to restore OCF components