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 docid 5pzx61w 1kwn6shobesfg for more information 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