Echelon IzoT Commissioning Tool - Manual (Page 226)

You can manually back up an IzoT Commissioning Tool network design, or you can have IzoT
Commissioning Tool schedule periodic backups.
Manually Backing Up an IzoT Commissioning Tool Network
You can back up an IzoT Commissioning Tool network design from an OpenLNS CT drawing or from
the IzoT Commissioning Tool Design Manager.
When you back up the network database, you can close the network database and create a standard
backup, or you can create a hot backup, which is a shadow copy of the network database created while
it is open. You can use a hot backup to create a backup without disrupting any remote clients or other
OpenLNS applications accessing the network database.
When you backup an OpenLNS CT drawing, IzoT Commissioning Tool temporarily closes the
drawing while making the backup.
The following sections describe how to create a standard IzoT Commissioning Tool backup and how
to create a hot backup.
Note: Utilities such as Google Desktop Search may cause backups to fail if they have any of the
database or drawing files open at the time of the backup. If you receive a backup failure error, disable
the utilities during the backup, or exclude the LM and L
ON W ORKS folders from the search of the
utility.
Creating a Backup from an OpenLNS CT Drawing
To create a backup while working in an OpenLNS CT drawing, follow these steps:
1. Click Add-Ins, point to IzoT Commissioning Tool Documents, and then click Backup. The
IzoT Commissioning Tool Backup dialog box opens.
2. Select which components of the IzoT Commissioning Tool network design to back up.
• Select both the Backup Drawing and Backup Database check boxes to back up the entire
IzoT Commissioning Tool network design. Use this option to move an IzoT Commissioning
Tool network design from one computer to another, replicate the IzoT Commissioning Tool
network design for another installation, or to store a backup of the IzoT Commissioning Tool
network design to protect against accidental file corruption or hardware failure.
• Select the Backup Drawing check box to back up only the OpenLNS CT drawing. Use this
option to create a backup of the drawing for use by an IzoT Commissioning Tool remote
client.
210 Maintaining Networks