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Backing up and restoring CDW

A summary of the steps for backing up and restoring CDW include deactivating and reactivating your CDW environment.

You complete the following high-level procedures to complete this upgrade:

  1. Back-up the configurations of the existing environment’s components attached Database Catalog and Virtual Warehouse(s).

  2. Deactivate your CDW environment.

  3. Activate a new environment using the previous environment configurations.

  4. Restore the default Database Catalog and Virtual Warehouses.

  5. Manually restore the Hue and Data Visualization databases.