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Maintenance
Backing up and restoring system configuration
Milestone recommends that you make regular backups of your system configuration as a disaster recovery
measure.
While it is rare to lose your configuration, it can happen under unfortunate circumstances. It is important that
you protect your backups, either through technical or organizational measures.
Backing up and restoring your system configuration (explained)
The system offers a built-in feature that backs up all the system configuration you can define in the
Management Client. The log server database and the log files, including audit log files, are not included in this
backup.
If your system is large, Milestone recommends that you define scheduled backups. This is done with the third-
party tool: Microsoft® SQL Server Management Studio. This backup includes the same data as a manual
backup.
During a backup, your system stays online.
Backing up your system configuration can take some time. Backup duration depends on:
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Your system configuration
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Your hardware
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Whether you have installed the SQL Server, Event Server component and the Management Server
component on a single server or several servers
Each time you make a backup both manual and scheduled, the SQL database's transaction log file is flushed.
For additional information about how to flush the transaction log file see SQL database transaction log
(explained) on page 128.
Make sure that you know your system configuration password settings when creating a
backup.
For FIPS 140-2 compliant systems, with exports and archived media databases from
XProtect VMS versions prior to 2017 R1 that are encrypted with non FIPS-compliant
cyphers, it is required to archive the data in a location where it can still be accessed after
enabling FIPS. For detailed information on how to configure your XProtect VMS to run in
FIPS 140-2 compliant mode, see the FIPS 140-2 compliance section in the hardening
guide.
Administrator manual | XProtect® VMS 2023 R1
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