Product Features
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Backup/Restore
Back Up a Device
Backup File Contents and File Management
6min
Review the following information for backup file contents and file management.
Configurations, including OPC UA configurations, are saved in a .DAT file, which is downloadable from the Backup/Restore Configuration section in the Backup/Restore tab.
Backup consists of:
- User, role, and group configurations
- Device IP
- Authentication Settings
- API-keys
- Users
- Password Policy
- DeviceHub settings (device and tags)
- Including metadata
- Marketplace catalogues
- Device Management Settings
- Certificates
- Timezone
- Friendly names
- Network Card Configurations
- DNS
- NTP
- Flow Instance and Flows File
- OPC UA settings including hierarchy
- Saved firewall rules and static routes
- Integration Connectors, Configurations and Subscribed Topics
- Analytics Groups and Processors
- Licensing Information
Databases, containers, and volume/images are not part of backup.
The lightweight backup file:
- Makes efficient use of storage resources
- Uses encryption to secure credentials
The following recommendations help to ensure seamless recovery:
- The default backup file is named something like backup_1624983948318.dat. Rename the file based on a naming convention that identifies the date the backup was taken.
Example: 2020-09-18 12:51-backup.dat
- Move the backup file from the default Downloads directory to an operational directory on a server that can be accessed by the operations team.
The backup .DAT file must be extracted and opened in Notepad.
- This .DAT file contains the Manufacturing Connect Edge configurations, as well as OPC UA configurations and Flows configurations.
- Use this file to restore your Manufacturing Connect Edge device.
Caution: Modifications to the contents of the backup .DAT file may render it unusable for restoring a Manufacturing Connect Edge device.