The administrative configuration contains vital information regarding your WebSphere Application Server - Express setup, and it should be backed up.
Administration server configuration
Most of the configuration for your WebSphere Application Server - Express instance resides in the config directory structure. In addition, the properties directory also contains several important configuration files. For more information on the configuration content stored in the properties directory, see Properties files. For more information about the configuration content stored in the config directory structure, see Administrative repository.
To save these properties files, run the Save (SAV) command:
SAV DEV('/QSYS.lib/wsalib.lib/wsasavf.file')
OBJ(('/QIBM/UserData/WebASE/ASE5/instance/properties/*')
('/QIBM/UserData/WebASE/ASE5/instance/config/*'))
where instance is the name of your instance.
Note: This command has been wrapped for display purposes. Enter it as one command.
To restore the properties files, run the Restore (RST) command:
RST DEV('/QSYS.lib/wsalib.lib/wsasavf.file') OBJ('/QIBM/*')