Milestone XProtect Advanced VMS 2014 - Manual (Page 269)

Milestone XProtect ® Advanced
VMS 2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 269 System maintenance
About back up/restore fail and problem scenarios
If, after your last system configuration backup, you have moved the event server or other registered
services such as the log server, you must select which registered service configuration you want for
the new system. You can decide to keep the new configuration after the system is restored to the old
version. You decide by looking at the host names of the services.
If your restore of the system configuration fails because the event server is not located at the specified
destination (for example, if you have chosen the old registered service setup), do another restore.
Back up system configuration manually
1. From the menu bar, select File, Backup Configuration.
2. Read the note in the dialog box and click Backup.
3. Enter a file name for the .cnf file.
4. Enter a folder destination and click Save.
5. Wait until the backup is finished and click Close.
Note: All relevant system configuration files are combined into one single .cnf file that is saved at a
specified location. During the backup, all backup files are first exported to a temporary system backup
folder on the management server. You can select another temporary folder by right-clicking the
notification area's management server service icon and by selecting Select shared backup folder.
Restore system configuration from manual back up
Important information:
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Both the user who installs and the user who restores must be local administrator of the
database on the management server and on the SQL server.
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Except for your recording servers, your system is completely shut down for the duration of the
restore, which can take some time.
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A backup can only be restored on the system installation where it was created. Make sure that
the setup is as similar as possible to when the backup was made. Otherwise, the restore might
fail.
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If restoring fails during the validation phase, you can start the old configuration again because
you have made no changes.
If restoring fails elsewhere in the process, you cannot roll back to the old configuration.
As long as the backup file is not corrupted, you can do another restore.
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Restoring replaces the current configuration. This means that any changes to the configuration
since last backup are lost.
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No logs, including audit logs, are restored.
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Once restoring has started, you cannot cancel it.
Restoring: