App Store Connect is quick to install, but at some point you may wish to consider a back up policy. Particularly if you've configured multiple data sources and/or are using the built-in Edge Historian to store application data (e.g. Alarm Analysis or Controller Consultant reports).

Depending on your circumstances, the following options are available:

If App Store Connect is installed on a Virtual Machine, snapshot is a reliable way to back-up an entire server. Refer to VM documentation for information on how to create, schedule and restore snapshots.

If snapshot is not an option, configuration and data files can be manually backed up and restored. Instructions are provided below, though note it is a technical procedure.

Development is underway for an App Store Connect back up utility - provisional release date Q4 2017.

Details to follow

Stop the Windows Service “Intelligent Plant Big Data Service 2.0”.

Edit Elasticsearch configuration file: C:\Program Files\Intelligent Plant\Big Data\es\config\elasticsearch.yml

(This is a text file using YAML format and that can be edited in any text editor.)

# Path to log files:
#
path.logs: "c:\\temp\\ES_Snapshot"
#

Uncomment the path.logs entry (remove hash) and provide a filepath to your back-up location.

Restart the Windows Service “Intelligent Plant Big Data Service 2.0”.

PUT _snapshot/20161220 { “type”: “fs”,

  "settings": {
      "location": "20161220",
      "compress": true
  }

}

This will create a folder C:\\Temp\\ES_Snapshot\20161220

GET _snapshot

PUT _snapshot/20161220/snapshot_1?wait_for_completion=true