Backup and Restore

SMARTUNIFIER provides the possibility to manually backup and restore the repository. The repository represents a central location in which all the configuration components are stored:

  • Information Models

  • Communication Channels

  • Mappings

  • Node Types

  • Instances

How to access

To access the Backup or the Restore option, click on on the Account icon (1), go to the Administrative option (2) and select the Backup perspective (3) or the Restore perspective (4).

Access to Backup or Restore

Note

The Backup and the Restore features can only be accessed by user accounts with an administrator role assigned.

Backup

The Backup feature provides the possibility to create a copy of all the configuration components to store elsewhere, so that it can be used to restore the last used after a data loss event occurs.

Follow the steps described below to create a backup of the repository:

  • Select the Account icon (1), go to the Administrative section (2) and select the Backup option (3).

Access to Backup

  • Select Yes on the confirmation dialog (4) to continue

Backup Confirmation

  • Choose the path (5) and the name (6) to save the repository TAR file then click on the Save button (7) to finish.

Backup Location

  • The TAR file contains all the SMARTUNIFIER configuration components:

  • Information Models

  • Communication Channels

  • Mappings

  • Device Types

  • Communication Instances

Restore

The Restore feature allows to copy the SMARTUNIFIER configuration components from a backup to the original location.

Note

When restoring, the existing configuration components will be overwritten by with the selected configuration components from the backup!

Follow the steps described below to restore the SMARTUNIFIER repository:

  • Select the Account icon (1) , go to the Administrative section (2) and select the Restore option (3).

Access to Restore

  • A pop-up appears, choose the TAR file to restore (4) and select the Yes button (5) to finish.

Restore Confirmation

  • The configuration components are uploading and all existing data will be overwritten!

  • The uploading progress is displayed, including errors, if any.

Restore Progress

  • Click on the Close button to finish (6).

Manager Backup

In order to backup SMARTUNIFIER Manager make a copy of the SMARTUNIFIER installation package.

Before the backup make sure to remove the following directories:

  • temp

  • workspace

  • log

  • deploy

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