How to ignore backup while upgrading

How to ignore backup while upgrading

For version 9.3 and below




Add the param -DSDBackUp=false in UpdMgr.bat file before upgrading. This file can be found in [SDP-Home]\bin\scripts folder.

%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java -Xmx100m %JAVA_OPTS% -DSDBackUp=false -Dtier-type=BE 
-Djava.library.path=.\lib\native -Dtier-id=BE1
com.adventnet.tools.update.installer.UpdateManager -u server\default\conf %*
cd bin










From version 9335


Add the param -DSkipBackUp=true in UpdMgr.bat file before upgrading. This file can be found in [SDP-Home]\bin\scripts folder.

%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java -Xmx100m %JAVA_OPTS% -DSkipBackUp=true -Dtier-type=BE 
-Djava.library.path=.\lib\native -Dtier-id=BE1
com.adventnet.tools.update.installer.UpdateManager -u conf %*
cd bin











For LINUX environments





Please edit the updatemanager.sh and append the below parameter in the shell script to ignore backup while upgrading.

-Dtools.discSpaceCheck=false




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