Backing Up SAS Content in Your SAS 9 Enterprise Intelligence Platform: Considerations for Creating Backups of Your SAS Content

SAS recognizes that an organization has made a considerable investment in the SAS software system. Information about the environment, reports generated by end-users, and analytical models that drive strategic decisions represents key corporate assets that directly impact business results. Therefore, the SAS assets must be included in the corporate backup strategy. This paper focuses on considerations for developing a content backup strategy for the SAS 9 Enterprise Intelligence Platform - including content from SAS Data Integration Server, SAS Enterprise BI Server, and analytic products such as SAS Enterprise Miner. SAS typically generates operating system files, so standard backup tools can be used to create backups of most content. However, there are considerations that can make the backup process more effective.