Introduction
WIP Active Backup (AB) is a light weight easy to use active backup retention solution which continuously takes backups retentions of your Qlik Sense application assets across servers.
Administrators can configure AB WIP Active per server they set-up and apply policies which reflect across all servers. Policies cover both AB backup WIP Active retention frequencies as well as retention policies and Administrators can select the streams or users they want to backupretain.
Users who have been assigned RootAdmin, ContentAdmins and/or AppOwnership on Qlik Sense QMC are able to use their Qlik Sense credentials to access AB WIP Active and restore applications directly to their original or new locations.
Administration users will always use their Admin rights (higher rights) should they have application ownership assigned thus providing higher rights in ABWIP Active.
WIP Active Backup provide provides a subscription license model per application backed up with a policy.
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Retention Challenges
We’ve all suffered the consequences of a quick click and instant regret. That feeling of time lost not only to potentially recover the work lost but the process or potentially accomplishing the result in due course while the work stands still.
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To restore a backup in any organisation organization is not a simple or short-term solution. It involves many people, many requests and issues and the result is generally not a good one.
Quite the process when it could be as easy as login into the AB WIP Active service and selecting the latest file for restore to yourself or the original location.
How WIP Active
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Works
Login:
WIP Active Backup (AB) provide provides two login options. Qlik and RootAdmin.
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Please read the welcome to WIP Active Backup short overview of the product.
The user login option is integrated to Qlik authentication thus the user will use their Qlik user credentials to access ABWIP Active.
Login Process:
Admin Login: Admin Login icon
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This option will divert to Qlik authentication page to provide Qlik user credentials once. Once completed single sign-on should do the Qlik handshake every time the user clicks on the Qlik Login button.
Main Menu
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The user can see who is logged-in and their role, access this WIP Active Backup user guide directly and logout from the headers:
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The admin process is documentation in our Admin Guide for any administrator users wishing to understand how to create, configure, manage, monitor and control WIP Active Backup.
Active Restore
Global Search
The global search is a quick way to attain context and quickly find a single file you wish to restore. You know the file you wish to restore. You can search for your file by typing in a server, stream, application or username and the search will provide specific options for restore.
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Active Restore
Ranges: from-date-to-date selection. Current date is a default setting on to date option.
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Restore options may differ based on the Global Configuration options activated by administrators.
Restore Options:
Destination:
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Original location
Will restore to the original location the application was backed up from
WORK
Will restore the app to the user’s WORK stream
Stream (might not be activated by Admin)
Any stream the user has access
When the user has selected the destination, they can click the Restore button to restore the application.
Active Restore
Once the destination selected by default AB WIP Active will restore the whole application but you can select the app objects to restore individually.
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Active restore is always a great option for bigger problems, but you should restore objects individually and with care, e.g. if you restore a script where a table is missing, the visualizations may be impacted if they refer to a table that no longer exists. |
Restore History
Restore history is a quick and easy place to search and find restore information by time, user status. You can see the restore details at the bottom of the view when you select a restore process on top.
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Contact Details
Please contact Ebiexperts (Ltd) with any questions at either:
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Commercials: finance@ebiexperts.com
Frequently Asked Questions
What is WIP Active Backup?
WIP Active Backup (AB) is a Qlik specific continuous backup app which automatically take incremental snapshots of changes to applications as Qlik developers or self-service users frequently change Qlik applications. AB WIP Active is very easy to access, find the file which requires restoration and restore the file either to its original location, to the developer's WORK stream or any other stream should the administrators allow. Administration users can define retention policies for retention of the incremental versions of all changed applications across all defined servers. The retention policies are very flexible and the longest time of work a developer could possibly loose is 15 minutes. No more sleepless nights because of those infrequent errors.
Why WIP Active Backup?
Information technology departments generally run global server level backup policies to backup total servers, databases, and files for the total day. When a restore is required it's for a total day and will generally mean all users who have worked post the restore point will lose their work and/or they would all need to export their work before IT runs the restore, then import their work to continue their work. This is very difficult process to control, and it always leads to major risk of loss in time, data and development code.
Who can access WIP Active Backup?
RootAdmin, ContentAdmins and/or AppOwnership defined on Qlik Sense QMC can automatically access ABWIP Active. Ebiexperts provides self-service products for businesspeople to maintain their own security and access control as well as restoring work they have lost. We don’t believe this creates any risk within a business as these people would inform developers what to do in any event and that process does slow down the work required, when it can be done by a business owner in seconds or minutes.
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We provide E-Learning video overviews, how-to’s for all our products which are easy understand and use. We provide end-point execution buttons to execute actions within other systems so the user can focus on what they wished changed from a central point.
Some WIP Active Backup benefits:
Snapshot backups every 15 minutes
Completely flexible retention policies
Full backups ready for restore as defined by the retention policies
Easy to search for a specific file via the global search a range or use the filters to view all versions of files for restore.
Restore takes seconds