{"id":28,"date":"2020-05-12T09:12:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T07:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/?p=28"},"modified":"2020-05-14T10:33:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T08:33:19","slug":"galaxy-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/2020\/05\/12\/galaxy-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Inside ArchestrA IDE it is possible to export automation objects and other parts of your galaxy. If you need to make a complete dump into a .cab file that can be used to restore or create a new galaxy from, you need to use the System Platform Management Console. It is also called SMC and is located in the Wonderware Utilities folder in the start menu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"322\" src=\"http:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/systemplatform2017_smc_backup1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29\" srcset=\"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/systemplatform2017_smc_backup1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/systemplatform2017_smc_backup1-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption>SMC view of the Galaxy Database Manager<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In the SMC browse to the galaxy you want to backup in the Galaxy Database Manager dropdown tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"324\" src=\"http:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/systemplatform2017_smc_backup2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30\" srcset=\"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/systemplatform2017_smc_backup2.jpg 678w, https:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/systemplatform2017_smc_backup2-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><figcaption>SMC action menu.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>From the Action menu in SMC, choose Backup while having the galaxy selected you want to backup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"409\" height=\"198\" src=\"http:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/systemplatform2017_smc_backup3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31\" srcset=\"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/systemplatform2017_smc_backup3.jpg 409w, https:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/systemplatform2017_smc_backup3-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><figcaption>Galaxy Database Manager warning<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It is important that noone is working on the galaxy while taking a backup. Data written to the galaxy repository while backup is running, can result in a corrupted backup or a backup that contains errors and inconsistencies when restored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"557\" height=\"417\" src=\"http:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/systemplatform2017_smc_backup4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/systemplatform2017_smc_backup4.jpg 557w, https:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/systemplatform2017_smc_backup4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>You can choose to place your backup .cab file anywhere you want, if you want to <a href=\"http:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/2020\/05\/05\/where-is-backupgalaxies\/\">create a galaxy from a previously backup .cab file, read the article on how to do that<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"470\" height=\"404\" src=\"http:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/systemplatform2017_smc_backup5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33\" srcset=\"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/systemplatform2017_smc_backup5.jpg 470w, https:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/systemplatform2017_smc_backup5-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><figcaption>Success!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the backup routine is finished you should have this status window writing 100% completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside ArchestrA IDE it is possible to export automation objects and other parts of your galaxy. If you need to make a complete dump into a .cab file that can be used to restore or create a new galaxy from, you need to use the System Platform Management Console. It is also called SMC and<\/p>\n<p class=\"excert-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/2020\/05\/12\/galaxy-backup\/\" class=\"excerpt-more-link\" >Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Galaxy Backup&#8221;<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,22],"tags":[10,21,19],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wonderware","category-system-platform-2017","category-system-platform-management-console","tag-backup","tag-smc","tag-wonderware"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/systemplatform2017_smc_backup2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/wonderware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}