Back Up a Device

you can backup your manufacturing connect edge with its configurations by navigating to system > backup/restore important if you create a backup on an instance of manufacturing connect edge running on a virtual machine, you can't use the same backup to restore an instance of manufacturing connect edge running on a physical device there are two ways to back up a device back up a device manually back up a device to the cloud back up a device manually you can back up a device manually and save a copy of the device to your local drive before you begin review the following resources before manually backing up a device prepare for backup docid\ nanomnxg9eu9yxab9rien backup file contents and file management docid gxnwa1emuwhsku49n8e6 how to back up a device manually to manually back up a device in manufacturing connect edge, navigate to system > backup/restore the backup/restore pane appears from the backup/restore configuration section, click backup a backup dat file is saved to the downloads folder move the backup dat file to a designated folder on your local drive rename the backup dat file according to your naming convention recommended alternative use manufacturing connect to backup device as instructed above, backing up a manufacturing connect edge device is a manual process manufacturing connect offers an automatic backing up feature for your manufacturing connect edge devices this option automatically creates a new backup every time a manufacturing connect edge device’s configuration setting changes this includes setting changes such as saving a flow, adding a new user, or adding a new analytics processor see backup docid\ ljhongr2p8gw07h5av854 from the manufacturing connect documentation to learn more back up a device to the cloud backup to the cloud facilitates backups to manufacturing connect backups allow you to save a manufacturing connect edge device configuration to the cloud and later restore the configuration for the same device you can save the current device configuration to the cloud this enables you to store full license and configuration information within a backup json file you can later restore the full license and configuration to the same manufacturing connect edge device use this option to save a manufacturing connect edge device configuration so that you can later revert to a previous configuration use this option to store a local backup of the manufacturing connect edge device configuration before you begin before completing the steps below, make sure you do the following obtain a license for backup and restore activate the device with manufacturing connect see activate an edge device docid\ xybwui7dziu41fgxmzfu6 for more information how to back up a device to the cloud important when you configure a device backup to the cloud, you have the option of selecting the backup time interval this selection determines the frequency at which the backup mechanism checks the device configuration for changes if no changes are made, no backup file will be sent to save a device configuration to the cloud in manufacturing connect edge, navigate to system > backup/restore the backup/restore pane appears from the restore/backup to the cloud section, click configure and select an option from the drop down list none, 1 day, 1 hour, 10 minutes, custom interval in minutes after you have made your selection or entered an interval in minutes into the interval field, click set custom from the restore/backup to the cloud section, click save the backup configuration is saved to the cloud according to your selections the backup files appear as files in the restore/backup to the cloud section for the interval you have selected