Lifecycle management fails to migrate data completely
Lifecycle Management is the widely used option to export application artifacts for migration and backup. Starting 11.1.2 LCM also offers the ability to export data and can be selected while defining the migration definition. I wanted to setup a backup process to export application artifacts and used LCM. All seemed OK until I encountered an issue with LCM and wanted to share via this article. Lets reiterate the steps I followed and identify the error ourselves. I selected all artifacts including data. I defined the migration to export all the artifacts to file system and scheduled it to run as a job to export all the artifacts on Essbase server. Just to brief you on how to do achieve this is to write a batch script which calls the LCM command line utility with migration definition xml and path to export all the artifacts to desired location. On testing it, everything executed well as scheduled. It was after few days when my scheduled job f...