Prepare for Backup

review the following information to prepare for restoring a backup 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 make sure you do the following before restoring a backup obtain a license for backup and restore a new license is needed each time the manufacturing connect edge device changes its mac address activate the device with manufacturing connect see activate an edge device docid\ xybwui7dziu41fgxmzfu6 for more information tip request a license key contact your manufacturing connect edge representative to request a license key once an additional license key has been received, go to system > license to enter the license key and activate the license see upgrade a license docid\ ey48ve d9kfttn9gfqcee or upgrade a license offline docid\ m5ivjcs7ypk 6pv 6cdky your organization's standards and requirements dictate the frequency of device backups manufacturing connect edge configuration backup and virtual machine snapshots some virtual machines (such as vmware esxi or ms hyperv) offer snapshots as a disaster recovery feature therefore, for these virtually deployed manufacturing connect edge instances, configuration backups should not be used as the primary means of disaster recovery a snapshot is the state of a virtual machine at a specific point in time in addition to being able to save a manufacturing connect edge’s state like a configuration backup can, snapshots also preserve the virtual device’s memory and disc allocation for these virtual machines, configuration backups can be used instead to reset the configuration of a virtual device or to duplicate the setup of one device to many other virtual devices