Back up reports in Cognos 8 Report Studio

[haripali]

Back up reports in Cognos 8 Report Studio

In Cognos8 Report Studio I have created some 50 reports. Now I want to take a backup(copies) of these reports & want to keep it in different location(or drive). How to do this???

this is Cognos8 with content store on oracle9i.

 

[BICentre]

hello, you can create a deployment package based on these reports which will generate .zip for their metadata. another option is to locally save the report specs as .xml files into a versioning control software or to your hard drive.

Wallace Taylor

http://bicentre.blogspot.com

 

[haripali]

thanks man you have pointed in right direction.

there are 2 method to take backup of reports

1) use Tools--> Copy Report To Clip Board & copy report from cliboard
2) Deployment - Import & export in cognos connection

I have done Method 1) & worked well. But here u have to do this for each report. In case if reports run in more then 100 then this might not be very efficient better to go for Method 2) since it will take back up of all reports at once (very efficent & powerful).
I still have to work on Method 2) & later i will definately post my comment on this.

thanks a ton once again