Backing up resources

Brokers and the Configuration Manager rely on a database manager to maintain and control their configuration data. Brokers, the Configuration Manager, and the User Name Server rely on WebSphere MQ to transport and guarantee messages between components. You must establish a backup process that includes these sources of information to preserve the integrity and consistency of your broker domain.

In addition to backing up the Configuration Manager domain, you should also back up any development resources, such as message flow files, message set definition files, ESQL files, mapping files, XML Schema files, and broker archive files.

You should refer to the information supplied with the database you are using for details of the relevant backup procedures.

The following topics tell you how to back up and restore brokers and the Configuration Manager:
Related tasks
Recovering after failure
Related reference
Supported databases
Database contents
mqsicreatebroker command
mqsicreateconfigmgr command