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Restore system configuration
1. If you use the system on a server running any supported operating system, copy the content
of the backed-up Milestone Surveillance folder into C:\Program Data\Milestone\Milestone
Surveillance.
2. If you backed up the file devices.ini, copy the file into C:\Program Files\Milestone\Milestone
Surveillance\devices.
Back up and restore alarm and map configuration
It is important that you regularly back up your alarm and map configurations. You do this by backing
up the event server, which handles your alarm and map configuration as well as the Microsoft
® SQL
Server Express database, which stores your alarm data. This enables you to restore your alarm and
map configuration in a possible disaster recovery scenario. Backing up also has the added benefit that
it flushes the
SQL Server Express database’s transaction log.
When you back up and restore alarm and/or map configuration, you must do it in the following order:
Prerequisites

You must have administrator rights on the SQL Server Express database when you back
up or restore your alarm configuration database on the SQL Server Express. Once you are
done backing up or restoring, you only need to be a database owner of the SQL Server
Express database.

Microsoft® SQL Server Management Studio Express, a tool you can download for free
from
www.microsoft.com/downloads . Among its many features for managing SQL Server
Express databases are some easy-to-use backup and restoration features. Download and
install the tool on your existing surveillance system server and on a possible future surveillance
system server (you will need it for backup as well as restoration).
Step 1: Stop the Event Server service
Stop the event server service to prevent configuration changes from being made:
1. On your surveillance system server, click Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools >
Services.
2. Right-click the Event Server, click Stop.
This is important since any changes made to alarm configurations —between the time you create a
backup and the time you restore it —will be lost. If you make changes after the backup, you must make
a new backup. Note that the system does not generate alarms while the Event Server service is
stopped. It is important that you remember to start the service again once you have finished backing
up the SQL database.
Step 2: Back up alarms data in SQL Server Express database
If you do not have SQL Server Management Studio Express, you can download it for free from
www.microsoft.com/downloads .