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App Store Connect: Back Up and Restore
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:
Virtual Machine: Snapshot
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.
Virtual Machine: Manual
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.
1. Back Up App Store Connect Configuration
Details to follow
2. Back Up Edge Historian Data Files
2.1 Prepare a back-up location
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.)
#Define Physical Repo for snapshots #More info: <https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-snapshots.html> path.repo: ["C:\\Temp\\snapshots"]
Uncomment the path.repo entry (remove hash) and provide a filepath to your back-up location.
Restart the Windows Service “Intelligent Plant Big Data Service 2.0”.
2.2 Register logical backup
PUT _snapshot/20161220 { “type”: “fs”,
"settings": { "location": "20161220", "compress": true }
}
This will create a folder C:\\Temp\\ES_Snapshot\20161220
3. Query Repos
GET _snapshot
4. Snapshot all indices
PUT _snapshot/20161220/snapshot_1?wait_for_completion=true