Scheduling a Weekly LCM Backup



LCM Utility enables users to perform scheduled migrations using a third-party scheduling 
service such as Windows Task Scheduler or Oracle Enterprise Manager. As we know that its 
quite easy to schedule a batch file, here we will be scheduling a weekly file system backup for 
one of our application App3. LCM backup is not considered as proper backup of the 
application for detailed information on backups have a look at this link. As you might have seen 
in our last post that we need to create a migration definition file before we can execute a 
migration using Utility.bat, how to create migration file and other basic information on LCM 
utility have a look at the previous post.  While scheduling a backup we need to ensure that 
the user and password values are provided in the migration definition file; otherwise, the utility 
prompts you for those values and will not execute. By default a migration file doesn't have the 
user name and password information but the moment we run the utility first time credential 
information is stored in the xml file. Here is our Migration Definition file with user credentials, 
user name is stored directly but the password is encrypted by the utility itself.
Lets create a batch file, I have created a batch file where I am redirecting the logs to file, I have 
used the system time to name the log file, lets save this file as weeklybkup.bat,

Lets save this file at below location, 

Now open the window's scheduler to schedule this batch file.






















We need to make sure that Foundation Services is up and Running while this scheduled 
operation is performed, once the operation is done you will get backup folder and logs at  
user_projects\epmsystem1\bin location. If you want to Rename the file system backup folder as 
well then you can schedule one more batch to Rename it. 


Cheers..!!!
Rahul

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