How to backup all your IBM BPM Process Applications?

As we know, "all sysadmins are divided into those who make backups and those who ALREADY make".

Recently I have been an eyewitness of an accident what reminded me this phrase. 12 of BPM servers were lost in one moment.

By the way, versions of BPM 7.5 and later permit to export snapshots of Process Applications using WAS wsadmin commands.


I made the small Linux shell script what exports all your snapshots from Process Center.
The script don't depend on DB platform and was tested on BPM 7.5.1 and 8.0.1

There are some limitations in BPM:
1. You cannot export archived snapshot.
2. You cannot export Tip (if it is not one).
3. You can backup BPM PA snapshots only (BPMN).

May be, my script is "Indian Coding Style" :) but it works and you can use it for your work.
Who can, let's will make it better.

#!/bin/bash
# description: backup All BPM PApps
#
# Usage:   ./exportPA.sh <BPM_ProfileFolderPath> <BPM_host> <SOAPPort> <Username> <Password> <BackupFolderPath>
#
# Example: ./exportPA.sh /opt/IBM/BPM8/profiles/ProcCtr01 localhost 8880 admin admin /opt/backup
#
# Vladlen Litvinov (c)2013
#

TODAY=`date +%Y%m%d`
# Read Information about PApps using wsadmin
"$1"/bin/wsadmin.sh -conntype SOAP -port "$3" -host "$2" -user "$4" -password "$5" -lang jython -c "print AdminTask.BPMListProcessApplications('[]')" > "$6"/PAPP$TODAY.log
    
# Reading Names of PApps to Array ARRAY
declare -a ARRAY
exec 10<"$6"/PAPP$TODAY.log
let count=0
while read LINE <&10; do
if [ -n "$LINE" ]
then
    if [[ ${LINE:0:7} = 'Acronym' ]]
 then
 ARRAY[$count]=${LINE:9}
 ((count++))
    fi
fi
done
exec 10>&-
# Reading Information about Snapshots in the PApps List
COUNT=${#ARRAY[@]}
    declare -a ARRAYSN
for (( i=0;i<$COUNT;i++)); do
    PANAME=${ARRAY[${i}]}
# Reading Information about Snapshots using wsadmin
    "$1"/bin/wsadmin.sh -conntype SOAP -port "$3" -host "$2" -user "$4" -password "$5" -lang jython -c "print AdminTask.BPMShowProcessApplication('[-containerAcronym $PANAME]')" > ""$6/$PANAME$TODAY.log
   
    unset ARRAYSN
    exec 11<"$6"/$PANAME$TODAY.log
    let count=0
    while read LINE <&11; do
 #Parsing of the file with information about Snaphots
 case "${LINE:0:7}" in
     'Acronym' ) ARRAYSN[$count]=${LINE:9}
   ((count ++));;
     'Track A' ) ARRAYSN[$count]="Track:"${LINE:15}
   ((count ++));;
     'State: ' ) temp=${LINE:12}
   #Changing places of Status and SnapshotName   
   ARRAYSN[$count]=${ARRAYSN[$count-1]}
   ARRAYSN[$count-1]=$temp
   ((count ++));;
     'Tip:'    ) ARRAYSN[$count]=${LINE:0:3}
   ((count ++));;
 esac
    done
#--ARRAYSN Example: HSS Track:Main [Inactive] Tip [Inactive] SN01
 #Parsing of the Array with information about Snapshots (no redundancy)
 COUNTSN=${#ARRAYSN[@]}
 flag=0
 for (( j=1;j<$COUNTSN;j++)); do
     temp=${ARRAYSN[${j}]}
    
         case ${temp:0:6} in
      'Track:' ) TRNAME=${temp:6}
          SNNAME='';;
      '[Undep' ) SNNAME='';;
      '[Archi' ) SNNAME=''
          flag=1;;
      '[Inact' ) SNNAME='';;
      '[Activ' ) SNNAME='';;
      'Tip'    )
      if [ $COUNTSN -gt 3 ]
   then SNNAME=''
   else SNNAME='Tip'
      fi;;
      *        )
          if [ $flag = 0 ]
    then SNNAME=$temp
    else SNNAME=''
    flag=0
          fi;;
  esac
 if [ -n "$SNNAME" ]
 then
     #Exporting Snapshots using wsadmin
         "$1"/bin/wsadmin.sh -conntype SOAP -port "$3" -host "$2" -user "$4" -password "$5" -lang jython -c "AdminTask.BPMExport('[-containerAcronym $PANAME -containerSnapshotAcronym $SNNAME -containerTrackAcronym $TRNAME -outputFile "$6"/$PANAME-$SNNAME-$TRNAME-$TODAY.twx]')" >> "$6"/export$TODAY.log
 fi

 done
    exec 11>&-
done

The result: