Using repos_copy

Repos_copy is a command line interface for working with integration components and InterChange Server repositories. It allows you to deploy a package--a collection of integration components--to a server repository, or to export components from the repository to a package.

Repos_copy is also used to migrate components from earlier versions to the current release. If you are working with old-format components, first migrate your components. Refer to the WebSphere Business Integration Server Express Installation Guide for more information. Repos_copy does not support "-ar, -arp, -vr, -vp -xCompilePackage", and has limitations for "-o", and all the -xCompile options when working with old-format components.

To run repos_copy, enter the command in an MS-DOS command prompt window. The ProductDir/bin directory, where the utility resides, should be in your path as a result of installation.

Note:
The repos_copy output file contains encrypted passwords for relationships and connector applications. If you try to edit the output file and change these passwords, repos_copy does not work.
Important:
When repos_copy deploys components to the repository, it deploys them to the repository only. It does not deploy them to any in-memory tables of business object definitions. For example, connectors load business object definitions from the repository into their memory space when they start. If you deploy a business object definition to the repository to update it, you must restart the connector agent so that it loads the modified business object definition into memory. You must stop and restart InterChange Server Express and components that load definitions into memory for them to load recently deployed components.

This chapter has the following sections:

For more information about backing up the system, see the System Administration Guide.

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