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Tableau Upgrade with Hardware migration
Objective: Migrate content from data center to AWS and upgrade Tableau server from 9.1.3 to 9.2
1. Remove Unneeded Files
# to clean up all possible files and database entries, you should run tabadmin cleanup twice: once when Tableau Server is
# running, and once when it is stopped.
tabadmin cleanup
tabadmin stop
tabadmin cleanup
tabadmin start
2. Backup the Tableau Data
a. Open a command prompt as an administrator and type the following:
cd "C:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau Server\9.1\bin"
b. Create backup
tabadmin backup -d C:\backups\tableau\tabserver-9.1.3 -t c:\tmp\tableau-9.1.3
3. Migrate to New Hardware
a. Copy your .tsbak file to the bin folder on your new Tableau Server (for example, C:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau Server\9.2\bin).
b. Next, stop Tableau Server.
c. Restore your in-production data without configuration information to your new Tableau Server installation:
tabadmin restore --no-config <filename>
References:
http://onlinehelp.tableau.com/v9.2/server/en-us/tabadmin_cleanup.htm
http://onlinehelp.tableau.com/v9.2/server/en-us/db_backup.htm
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Folders/File Locations:
C:\ProgramData\Tableau\Tableau Server\config\tabsvc.yml
C:\ProgramData\Tableau\Tableau Server\logs
C:\backups\tableau\

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