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.
Your organization's standards and requirements dictate the frequency of device backups.
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.