Backup SQL - epicor 10.700.3

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Robby,


I surely would like to see them as well. I'm just into 10 now, but have a similar set of scripts for doing the same Test/Pilot refresh in 9.


Email is mgross AT ashworth DOT com


Much appreciated!


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Who has some good instructions on how to set up backing up and restoring epicor10?  Im looking at the stuff Epicor sent me and Im confused on the task agent side.

 

In services, we have one task agent labeled as Epicor ICE Task Agent, but the instructions say go to ICE Task Agent Service Config….these are two separate things.

 

So short of ripping my server apart…did anyone create better instructions on how to back up their SQL db and restore it to a test environment?  If so, would you be willing to share with me, pretty please?!

 

Manasa

 

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I general just back up my DB through SQL Server Management Studio. Then use that .BAK file to restore over whatever database I need too. Only thing you have to alter is in the sysagent folder you'll need to change the ports to the appopriate client (test, pilot, live, train). Its fairly simple and usually takes no more then 5 minutes to do.
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SysAgent table I mean, NOT folder.
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In e10 just backup and restore the SQL box. Then you may have to browse to system agent maintenance and change the server path there though ivr noticed that it changes on its own most times.

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So I don’t need to stop any services when I do the restore?

 

 

Manasa

 

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In e10 just backup and restore the SQL box.  Then you may have to browse to system agent maintenance and change the server path there though ivr noticed that it changes on its own most times.

On Mar 30, 2015 5:53 PM, "amathis@... [vantage]" <vantage@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

SysAgent table I mean, NOT folder.

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I’ve never seen any instructions from Epicor but I know what I routinely do.   For backup I don’t stop anything.  For restore I stop the App Pool (kicking off any user sessions) and I often detach and re-attach the DB I am restoring to just to make sure there are no connections.  I restore our Pilot DB to Test DB once or twice a week.  After the restore I restart the App Pool.  We have two servers with load balancing so it will have to be done on both.

The Epicor ICE Task Agent service I do stop and restart after the restore because for some reason it will stop processing anything.  Reports will hang in the system monitor and never start up.  Scheduled activities (like multi-company consolidation) will not run either.  A Stop/Start takes care of it so I wrote a batch command file to do it from a server desktop icon.

-Todd C.

 

 

 

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So I don’t need to stop any services when I do the restore?

 

 

Manasa

 

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In e10 just backup and restore the SQL box.  Then you may have to browse to system agent maintenance and change the server path there though ivr noticed that it changes on its own most times.

On Mar 30, 2015 5:53 PM, "amathis@... [vantage]" <vantage@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

SysAgent table I mean, NOT folder.

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Thanks, Todd!

 

M

 

 

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I’ve never seen any instructions from Epicor but I know what I routinely do.   For backup I don’t stop anything.  For restore I stop the App Pool (kicking off any user sessions) and I often detach and re-attach the DB I am restoring to just to make sure there are no connections.  I restore our Pilot DB to Test DB once or twice a week.  After the restore I restart the App Pool.  We have two servers with load balancing so it will have to be done on both.

The Epicor ICE Task Agent service I do stop and restart after the restore because for some reason it will stop processing anything.  Reports will hang in the system monitor and never start up.  Scheduled activities (like multi-company consolidation) will not run either.  A Stop/Start takes care of it so I wrote a batch command file to do it from a server desktop icon.

-Todd C.

 

 

 

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So I don’t need to stop any services when I do the restore?

 

 

Manasa

 

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In e10 just backup and restore the SQL box.  Then you may have to browse to system agent maintenance and change the server path there though ivr noticed that it changes on its own most times.

On Mar 30, 2015 5:53 PM, "amathis@... [vantage]" <vantage@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

SysAgent table I mean, NOT folder.

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Manasa,

We use a SQL maintenance job to take care of all our SQL backups along with other SQL tasks we like to run nightly. 

As for restoring our Epicor database, we have two scripts that we run when doing so.  These scripts are mainly used when refreshing our Live database to a Pilot environment.  The first script is a SQL restore script that simple restores the database.  The second script goes through and sets all the environment variables like company name, credit card processing URL, report directories, TaxConnect and shipping workstation configs.  This makes things easy and consistent each time we run a refresh.

In our Pilot environments we will rename the company to the date the refresh is done so that users know how current our data is.

As for running the refresh in E10, I've found stopping the task agent and then application pool need to be done before restoring the DB.

If you'd like to see examples of our SQL Scripts let me know.

Robby
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Can you share them with me? It would help me right now actually. Right in the middle of testing my beta version to 700.4 

It's tough figuring out how to restore a DB to the test environment under a new DB name. The live server has the same DB name as my first test DB. I don't want to change the original test DB. 

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Manasa,

We use a SQL maintenance job to take care of all our SQL backups along with other SQL tasks we like to run nightly. 

As for restoring our Epicor database, we have two scripts that we run when doing so.  These scripts are mainly used when refreshing our Live database to a Pilot environment.  The first script is a SQL restore script that simple restores the database.  The second script goes through and sets all the environment variables like company name, credit card processing URL, report directories, TaxConnect and shipping workstation configs.  This makes things easy and consistent each time we run a refresh.

In our Pilot environments we will rename the company to the date the refresh is done so that users know how current our data is.

As for running the refresh in E10, I've found stopping the task agent and then application pool need to be done before restoring the DB.

If you'd like to see examples of our SQL Scripts let me know.

Robby

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Robby, would you be willing to email your scripts….I’m looking into why my reports are not working and I bet your script would help me!  I know I would have to modify it for my environment!

 

Email address is below if you are willing to share!  I’m not a SQL admin….yet!  Every little bit helps….thanks!

 

 

 

M. Manasa Reddy

IT Manager

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Subject: [Vantage] Re: Backup SQL - epicor 10.700.3

 

 

Manasa,

We use a SQL maintenance job to take care of all our SQL backups along with other SQL tasks we like to run nightly. 

As for restoring our Epicor database, we have two scripts that we run when doing so.  These scripts are mainly used when refreshing our Live database to a Pilot environment.  The first script is a SQL restore script that simple restores the database.  The second script goes through and sets all the environment variables like company name, credit card processing URL, report directories, TaxConnect and shipping workstation configs.  This makes things easy and consistent each time we run a refresh.

In our Pilot environments we will rename the company to the date the refresh is done so that users know how current our data is.

As for running the refresh in E10, I've found stopping the task agent and then application pool need to be done before restoring the DB.

If you'd like to see examples of our SQL Scripts let me know.

Robby

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Please send to agercar@...

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On Apr 1, 2015, at 10:15 AM, Anthony Gercar agercar@... [vantage] <vantage@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Can you share them with me? It would help me right now actually. Right in the middle of testing my beta version to 700.4 

It's tough figuring out how to restore a DB to the test environment under a new DB name. The live server has the same DB name as my first test DB. I don't want to change the original test DB. 

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 1, 2015, at 8:32 AM, robby.burmeister@... [vantage] <vantage@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Manasa,

We use a SQL maintenance job to take care of all our SQL backups along with other SQL tasks we like to run nightly. 

As for restoring our Epicor database, we have two scripts that we run when doing so.  These scripts are mainly used when refreshing our Live database to a Pilot environment.  The first script is a SQL restore script that simple restores the database.  The second script goes through and sets all the environment variables like company name, credit card processing URL, report directories, TaxConnect and shipping workstation configs.  This makes things easy and consistent each time we run a refresh.

In our Pilot environments we will rename the company to the date the refresh is done so that users know how current our data is.

As for running the refresh in E10, I've found stopping the task agent and then application pool need to be done before restoring the DB.

If you'd like to see examples of our SQL Scripts let me know.

Robby

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I would also like to see the scripts.

 

Much thanks,

 

-      Neil   -    nbuckman@...

 

 

 

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To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Re: Backup SQL - epicor 10.700.3

 

 

Manasa,

We use a SQL maintenance job to take care of all our SQL backups along with other SQL tasks we like to run nightly. 

As for restoring our Epicor database, we have two scripts that we run when doing so.  These scripts are mainly used when refreshing our Live database to a Pilot environment.  The first script is a SQL restore script that simple restores the database.  The second script goes through and sets all the environment variables like company name, credit card processing URL, report directories, TaxConnect and shipping workstation configs.  This makes things easy and consistent each time we run a refresh.

In our Pilot environments we will rename the company to the date the refresh is done so that users know how current our data is.

As for running the refresh in E10, I've found stopping the task agent and then application pool need to be done before restoring the DB.

If you'd like to see examples of our SQL Scripts let me know.

Robby


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This is the type of thing I would suggest zipping and posting to the group file share for everyone to access so emails are not being bombarded with the request to email.

 

Or posting it for download somewhere and sharing with the group as a whole

 

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I would also like to see the scripts.

 

Much thanks,

 

-      Neil   -    nbuckman@...

 

 

 

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 1 April 2015 11:32 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Re: Backup SQL - epicor 10.700.3

 

 

Manasa,

We use a SQL maintenance job to take care of all our SQL backups along with other SQL tasks we like to run nightly. 

As for restoring our Epicor database, we have two scripts that we run when doing so.  These scripts are mainly used when refreshing our Live database to a Pilot environment.  The first script is a SQL restore script that simple restores the database.  The second script goes through and sets all the environment variables like company name, credit card processing URL, report directories, TaxConnect and shipping workstation configs.  This makes things easy and consistent each time we run a refresh.

In our Pilot environments we will rename the company to the date the refresh is done so that users know how current our data is.

As for running the refresh in E10, I've found stopping the task agent and then application pool need to be done before restoring the DB.

If you'd like to see examples of our SQL Scripts let me know.

Robby

 

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