Backing up and restoring your 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.
The system offers a built-in feature that backs up all the system configuration you can define in the Management Client. The system logs 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:
Your system configuration
Your hardware
Whether you have installed SQL Server, the event server, and management server components on a single server or several servers
Each time you make a backup both manual and scheduled, the transaction log file of the SQL Server database is flushed. For additional information about how to flush the transaction log file see SQL Server database transaction log.
Important
Make sure that you know your system configuration password settings when creating a backup.
Important
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.