Data Historian Backup And Restore Functions; Taking A Backup Of The Data Historian; Taking A Data Historian Online Backup - ABB COM600 series Data Historian Operator's Manual

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COM600 series, Version 5.0
Data Historian Operator's Manual

Data historian backup and restore functions

Taking a backup of the Data historian

Ensure that the actions below are done from administrator
command prompt.
To backup Data historian :
1. Log into the COM600 computer operating system.
2. Open the command prompt window (Start > Run > cmd).
3. Set the path to the backup media where the backup is to be stored by setting the
environment variable.
ABB_BACKUP_ROOT
For example, backup path can be set to
SET APP_BACKUP_ROOT=D:\RTDB_BACKUP
4. Start the creation of backup with command
5. Wait until the backup script is finished.
6. Close the prompt window.

Taking a Data historian online backup

You can take a backup of the Data Historian application either manually using a bat file
or automatically by setting the Windows task scheduler to take an automatc backup at
certain intervals.
You can take a manual backup by using the COM600RTDBBackup.bat script. The script
is located at C:\Program Files\COM610 GW SW\Common\bin folder in the COM600
computer.
Note that you need admin rights to the computer run the script and perform the backup
successfully.
The script takes an input parameter, which indicates the folder of which the backup is
taken. When the input is valid, the script launches the APP_PrepareDatabaseForOn-
lineBackup.bat script, which makes an online backup of the Data Historian application.
The script also sets up the
for the Data Historian backup.
Ensure that the actions below are done from administrator
command prompt.
D:\RTDB_BACKUP
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APP_PrepareDatabaseForOnlineBackup
system environment variable, that is used
APP_BACKUP_ROOT
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