#Backup

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In information technology, a backup, or the process of backing up, refers to the copying and archiving of computer data so it may be used to restore the original after a data loss event.

In InterSystems Data Platform backup means procedures for backing up data in database files and all the related procedures which assure that no any application data is being lost during backup and recovery.

Documentation.

Article Guillaume Rongier · Jul 31, 2025 4m read

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This article will introduce you to the concept of virtual environments in Python, which are essential for managing dependencies and isolating project from the OS.

What is a Virtual Environment?

A virtual environment is a folder that contains :

  • A specific version of Python
  • At start an empty site-packages directory

Virtual environments will help you to isolate your project from the OS Python installation and from other projects.

How to use it?

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InterSystems Official Daniel Palevski · Mar 18

Summary

Alert Id Product & Versions Affected Risk Category & Score Explicit Requirements
DP-449126 InterSystems IRIS® data platform 
InterSystems IRIS® for Health 
InterSystems Health Connect™ 
versions 2024.1.0 – 2024.1.5, 2024.2.0, 2024.3.0, 2025.1.0 – 2025.1.3, 2025.2.0, 2025.3.0
Data Integrity: Low Risk  Database updates executed as part of custom logic for CSP session events may not be journaled.
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Question Jorge Gea Martínez · Oct 22, 2025

Hi,

I'm trying to run some scripting in Windows. I'm using an instance of the IRISHealth community. 

I'm just trying to run a simple sequence of commands so I can run irissession in a non-interactive mode, like:

irissession.exe IRISHEALTH -U "%SYS" < "myprogram.iris"


The contents of my program.iris are, for instance, these ones, to run an online backup:

set $namespace="%SYS"
set cbk = "C:\Test1.cbk"
set log = "C:\Test1.
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Question Mark Sharman · Sep 30, 2025

At the moment, we have 10 HealthShare instance servers (5 x mirrored pairs), where we implement an External Backup approach, using the freeze/thaw commands against whichever server of the pair is the backup mirror member, to complete a VM level backup. These backups are stored to a disk within our control, to purge as required. This approach allows us to deliver a zero downtime backup approach.

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Question Ganesh Jagtap · May 1, 2025

Hi all,

I'm reviewing an older Cache routine and came across this line of code: from file ^ZDBKCRON

S $ZT="^%ETSDK"

Error trap

/home/oper/script/cache_db_backup -t        # Daily CacheDB Backup

 produced the following output:

 <NOROUTINE> *%ETSDK
<ERRTRAP>

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From what I understand, this is setting up an error trap, but I'm not entirely clear on how it works, especially in modern InterSystems IRIS environments.

Could someone please help explain:

  1. What exactly does this line do?
  2. Is %ETSDK a standard system routine? I can't find it in our environment.
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