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Title: C8 Disaster Recovery
Post by: ddudkin on 19 Jul 2010 04:11:52 PM
Hi everyone,

My boss had a local installation of Cognos on his XP machine that went haywire. Backed the entire drive up, wipe and reload with 7. Obviously I have the cm MDF and the contents of the entire drive.

Once I have cognos 8 installed w/ sql and the cm database, how do I go about restoring the actual contents?
Title: Re: C8 Disaster Recovery
Post by: MFGF on 21 Jul 2010 05:49:26 AM
The contents should be in the content store database (cm) you have restored.  Just point Cognos 8 at the content store database and everything should appear as it was.

If your reports used external image files etc, you will need to copy these across from the old XP drive too.

MF.