Back up repository contents so that you can recover them after a hardware or software problem or to migrate a repository across domains or Metadata Manager Services. You can restore repository contents to the same database, to a different database, or to a different database type. To migrate a repository, back up repository contents, change the repository database, and restore the contents to the new database.

The backupRepository command creates a binary back-up file. It creates the back-up file in the

backup

subdirectory of the Metadata Manager file location that you set for the Metadata Manager Service.

By default, the backupRepository command creates the back-up file in the following directory:

<Informatica services installation directory>\services\MetadataManagerService\mm_files\<Metadata Manager Service name>\backup