Picture Perfect 4.6 User Manual - UTCFS Global Security Products

Chapter 15
Backup and restore
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Related procedures
To archive data:
1. From the Control menu, select the Backup menu item, and then click the Archive tab.
2. From the Include: section, select one or more of the tables: Badge, Alarm, Operator, Event,
or an optional package, corresponding to the tables you want to archive.
3. The Force Rollover option is displayed beside each history option. Toggle this button On if
you want to force a rollover of information and archive that data.
4. If you want to generate an on-screen verification report, click Generate Verification Report.
5. Use the appropriate radio button to specify whether you are backing up to Tape or Disk File.
Note:
When Disk File is selected, clicking Browse displays a list from which you can select the destination file
for the backup/archive.
6. Click Execute to begin archiving.
Restoring your database
Use the cbr command line option to restore a database from disk files or tapes. Keep the following
in mind before you restore your database:
CAUTION: Do not restore non-history data on a running Picture Perfect system.
The Picture Perfect server must be stopped before entering the cbr command. The cbr command may be used on
a running system only when restoring data from archives.
• When restoring from backups on an Enterprise system, replication is stopped, data restored,
and replication restarted.
• When restoring a database on the primary server in a Picture Perfect Redundant Server
(PPRS) environment, Picture Perfect must be stopped on both the primary and secondary
server.
• The restore command does not overwrite existing data. To clear your tables, contact your
support representative.
• Before you restore a database, you should perform a database initialization. For instructions
on how to perform this task, contact your support representative.
• To restore non-database files, use the command line database restore option, cbr, or the
database restore utility, restore.sh.
• When a database is restored, please note that data is not downloaded to the controllers until
the controllers are reset.
Note:
Archives are restored to tables with the following naming convention:
Example: If you are logged in as install and archiving badge_history, the name of the archive table is:
badge_historyinsta