UnifiedViews - Recommended Backup Strategy
17/11/2025
This section contains a short guide on how to backup the data of your UnifiedViews instance.
Required UnifiedViews Backup Directories
If you use the default path during installation, you find the data and repositories in this path: /opt/unifiedviews/unifiedviews/configdata/server/repositories
Additional UnifiedViews Backup Directories
Pipeline Debug Data
We strongly recommend to also back up the pipeline debug data, located by default here: /opt/unifiedviews/unifiedviews/backend/working
UnifiedViews Input & Output Data
UnifiedViews input and output data should also be backed up and per default during installation are created here: /opt/unifiedviews/unifiedviews/data
Tip
Depending on the configuration you choose for your UnifiedViews instance, during pipeline development, users could specify any readable or writable directories on the server. Make sure to include all of them in your backup.
Due to the nature of such data, backups can be large, so consider disk capacity when planning backups.
Backup Strategy
Important
We strongly recommend to regularly back up UnifiedViews pipelines and DPU configuration data, since UnifiedViews does not automatically create system snapshots.
Best Practice
Set up a dedicated backup pipeline for the required directories mentioned above.
For a full backup also add the additional directories specified above to this pipeline.
Note
Optimal backup strategies reflect your infrastructure as well as your individual requirements.
Tip
We recommend setting up a dedicated backup pipeline which should be run at regular intervals.
You may consider setting up two pipelines - one for full backup covering both required and additional directories, and an incremental backup only covering the required directories.