Use case:
- I have my Dataminer saving Full Backups periodically (incl. DB)
- For some reason, I want to recover only the state of a given element, or elements, from one of last backup files.
How can I do this? Dataminer must have a straightforward way to do it but I can't find it. Can you please help?
Hey Paulo,
This is currently not possible yet. Currently a backup will restore everything that is contained in the package to the dma.
Tinkering with the package and restoring a package on an agent that is not prepared as described in the help can lead to unexpected consequences (loss of data, corruption in files, unstable systems,...) and is not advised.
Hi Paulo,
If you manually copied over the Skyline Dataminer/Elements folder from the archive into the installation folder, and restart the DMA, I believe the DMA would start up and take the element settings (including the state).
If that is too broad for your needs, a tool could be developed to do it, I'm sure.
Hi Brent, thanks for your answer.
In my use-case there is no tinkering. The full backup was taken and I was expecting - as something very natural - that we could select which part or parts or that backup we want to restore. This is not a nice-to-have but a very practical and common use case and it is a big limitation of the software, IMHO.
Hi Rodrigo, that wouldn’t work. By “state” I mean not only the element settings but all its data (tables, trending, alarms, visios, etc.). The use-case is: restore an element from a backup file.
And my point was not about having or making some tool or script to workaround this but the lack of an essential feature in the backup & restore of Dataminer.