Echelon OpenLNS Commissioning Tool - Manual (Page 224)

208 Maintaining Networks
Manually Backing Up an OpenLNS CT Network
You can back up an OpenLNS CT network design from an OpenLNS CT drawing or from the
OpenLNS CT 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, OpenLNS CT temporarily closes the drawing while
making the backup.
The following sections describe how to create a standard OpenLNS CT 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 OpenLNS CT Documents, and then click Backup. The OpenLNS CT
Backup dialog box opens.
2. Select which components of the OpenLNS CT network design to back up.
• Select both the Backup Drawing and Backup Database check boxes to back up the entire
OpenLNS CT network design. Use this option to move an OpenLNS CT network design
from one computer to another, replicate the OpenLNS CT network design for another
installation, or to store a backup of the OpenLNS CT 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 OpenLNS CT remote client.
• Select the Backup Database check box to back up the OpenLNS network database only. Use
this option to move the network database to an OpenLNS Server computer that does not have
OpenLNS CT installed.