Tableau Server Backup & Maintenance
Managing Tableau Server (formerly Tableau Web Server). Targeted to IT staff with Tableau installed on client computers/on premises (on prem).
Backup Tableau Server
Tableau data includes data extract files, as well as Tableau Server's own PostgreSQL database, which stores workbook and user metadata, and server configuration data. – https://help.tableau.com/current/server/en-us/db.htm
Tableau https://help.tableau.com/current/server/en-us/db.htm documentation.
How to script the backup process
See the Script the backup process section in
Remove Tableau Log files and temporary folders
Tableau log files can grow quite large over time. Tableau provides utilities to delete older log files as part of system maintenance.
Monitoring disk space usage, setting appropriate logging levels.
See the Remove log files and clear temporary folders section in
Where log files, temporary files, and configuration files are stored.
See the Script the backup process section in
Remove log files and clear temporary folders
You can clean old Tableau Server log file and temporary files to reduce the time it takes to create a backup, and to ensure the backup file is as small as possible. – Back up Tableau Server Data
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