Backing up and restoring Omnivex Moxie

Summary

When working on a production network, regular back-up of essential services is a best-practice. This minimizes the possibility of data loss in the event of a catastrophic hardware or software failure.

Scope

This document discusses:

  1. Workspace vs Data Server backup
  2. How to back-up and restore workspaces
  3. How to back up and restore Moxie Data Server
  4. Backing up DataPipe Server and the Data Suite products

Beyond the scope of this document:

KB115: Recommendations for backing up SQLLink 4 files

Summary

We recommend creating backup versions of the following files:

  • Data Sources folder, which contains the data sources that you have created.
  • Queries folder, which contains the saved queries that you have created.
  • Links folder, which contains the links that you have created.
  • Options.xml file, which contains your configured options.
  • Logs folder, which contains all of your log files, one for each day.

These files are located in C:\ProgramData\Omnivex\SQLLink 4

KB117: Recommendations for backing up XMLLink 3 files

Summary

The following is a description of the files we recommend creating backup versions of and a brief description of what the files contain.

For versions prior to 3.07.025:

  • XMLLink.DP , located in: C:\Program Files\Omnivex\XMLLink, contains DataPipe links.
  • XMLLink.INI, located in: C:\Program Files\Omnivex\XMLLink, contains all of the settings configured in the Options dialog box.

 

For version 3.07.025 and later:

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