How to Backup

Access the service "apis://localhost" from Apis Managment Studio and navigate to the "Recovery" node.

Backup

Right click on the "Backup sets" node and select "Backup" from the menu. From the Backup view, follow the steps below:

• Select a backup folder

Select a backup root folder or optionally specify a full path for a Backup Set. If you select a backup root folder, the full path to the backup set will be generated.

• Select services to back up

Select the services you wish to back up. The following services are supported:

Apis Hive, Apis Chronical, Apis Honeystore and Apis OPC UA Namespace Server .

• Specify if configuration and/or history data should be included

You can specify if configuration and/or history data should be included in the backup.

• Specify Hive instance

You can specify which Hive instance that should be included in the backup. Option "*" means all Hive instances found on the machine.

• Run the backup job

Click on the "Run backup" button to start a backup job.

You are only allowed to run a backup job if the option combination is valid.

Any warnings or errors returned from the backup job will show up in the Information part.

A backup set will appear under the "backup set" node when the backup job is finished executing.

Schedule Backup

Right click on the "Scheduled Backup" node and select "Scheduled Backup" from the menu. From the Scheduled Backups view, follow the steps below:

• Type a name for the backup job

  Type a name that describes the backup job.

• Select a backup folder

  Select a backup root folder.

• Select the services to back up

Select the services you wish to back up. The following services are supported:

Apis Hive, Apis Chronical, Apis Honeystore and Apis OPC UA Namespace Server .

• Specify if configuration and/or history data should be included

You can specify if configuration and/or history data should be included in the Backup set.

• Specify Hive instance

You can specify which Hive instance that should be included in the backup. Option "*" means all Hive instances found on the machine.

• Specify Schedule type

The following schedules are supported:

One time, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly and custom Cron expression.

• Specify date time settings

Specify date time settings according to the schedule.

• Specify Backup set retention

  Specify how many Backup sets to keep. The last created Backup sets will be kept, according to this setting. Older Backup sets will be deleted.

• Add the Schedule backup job

Click on the "Add Schedule Backup" button to add the backup job.

The Apis Backup Agent will back up configurations for both running and stopped Apis services .