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How to Back Up Unsealed Management Packs

 

Updated: May 13, 2016

Applies To: System Center 2012 SP1 - Service Manager, System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager, System Center 2012 - Service Manager

You can use the Windows PowerShell command-line interface to identify and copy your unsealed management packs to a folder on your hard disk drive. After you copy them, save these management packs so that—as part of your disaster recovery plan for System Center 2012 – Service Manager—you can later import these management packs.

To back up unsealed management packs

  1. On the computer that hosts the Service Manager management server, create a folder on the hard disk drive where you will store the backup copy of the management packs. For example, create the folder C:\mpbackup.

  2. On the Windows desktop, click Start, point to Programs, point to Windows PowerShell 1.0, right-click Windows PowerShell, and then click Run as administrator.

  3. In the Service Manager console, click Administration.

  4. In the Tasks pane, click Start PowerShell Session

  5. At the Windows PowerShell command prompt, type the following command:

    Get-SCSMManagementPack | where {$_.Sealed -eq $false}|Export-SCSMManagementPack -Path c:\mpbackup

  6. Save the unsealed management packs on a separate physical computer.