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■ How to Backup and Restore
How to configure automatic backups
("System Backup")
Software Component to use
Administrative Task: Configure automatic
backups for all users (including Security
Platform Credentials and Settings,
Emergency Recovery and PSD configuration
settings).
If Security Platform is not yet initialized:
Initialization Wizard
If Security Platform is already initialized: Settings
Tool -Backup -Configure...
How to backup ("Manual Backup") Software Component to use
User Task: Run backup manually for the
current user.
Settings Tool - Backup - Backup...
How to restore Software Component to use
Administrative Task: Prepare restoration for
certain users.
User Task: Run restoration manually for
current user. If restoration has been
prepared for current user, then complete the
restoration.
If a manually written Backup Archive is
available and no Emergency Recovery data
needs to be restored, then a user can
perform restoration without preparation by
an administrator.
Settings Tool - Backup - Restore...
■ Backup
With this page you can configure automatic Security Platform backups.
The following table gives hints on how to use this wizard page.
Wizard Page Element Explanation
Backup location:
Browse...
Security Platform credentials and settings will be regularly saved to a
Backup Archive.
Type in path and file name or browse for it. An automatically written
Backup Archive consisting of an XML file and a folder with the same name
will be created, e.g. file
SPSystemBackup.xml
and folder
SPSystemBackup
.
Please use the extension *.xml.
Schedule... A scheduled backup will be created.
Click here to view and modify the backup scheduling.
Please note that automatic backups are only executed if your PC is not
shut down at the scheduled time.
Please note that the user account chosen for the scheduled backup must
be member of the group "Administrators" or "Backup Operators".
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