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Nanmar1-Visitor
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September 13, 2017
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Is it possible to restore Windchill data with only Db Backup and without LDAP and Vault Backup?

  • September 13, 2017
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Actually I was having SQL DB Backup and dosen't have LDAP and Vault Backup.

I have restore SQL Backup with Fresh Installation and now I was able to login through windchill.

I can able to see my previous data but unable to download or open it...

 

So my query is Only the metadata will get saved in DB or it will also have a copy of our data that we have in Vaults.

Best answer by BineshKumar1

No if you have configured to use vault, the files will not be moved to blobs

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BineshKumar11-Visitor
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September 13, 2017

Default out of the box installation of Windchill will store all the files in the DB as BLOB, since dbs are not optimal for storing large files, PTC recommends to switch to file vaults by setting a property(s) in wt.properties. When you use file vaults, the database stores just the metadata(think of it like a lookup table) and actual files goes in to file vault. The name of the files in the file vault are based on a hexadecimal sequence and the lookup for this is in the database. 

The local LDAP stores configuration information as well principal information. The configuration information includes naming services, task delegates, the principal information includes administrative users, Organization, users to group and group to group information. So you can't get rid of LDAP

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    Nanmar1-VisitorAuthor
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    September 14, 2017

    So as you said it was clear if we configure vault the data will be stored in Vaults and the metadata will be stored in DB, Here my query is will the data stored in vault will also be copied to DB after some period of time..

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    BineshKumar11-VisitorAnswer
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    September 14, 2017

    No if you have configured to use vault, the files will not be moved to blobs

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