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Backup Ambari

You must backup Ambari.

  1. Create Ambari database dump.
    1. On Postgres 
      pg_dump ambari -U ambari > pre_upgrade.sql
    2. On MySQL or MariaDB 
      mysqldump -u ambari ambari > pre_upgrade.sql
  2. Backup the following: 
    /etc/ambari-server/conf/ambari.properties
/etc/ambari-agent/conf/ambari-agent.ini