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Performing regular backups of your Uptime Infrastructure Monitor DataStore is a highly recommended practice. The DataStore is the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor backbone and holds all configuration information and historical performance data. This article outlines five common methods for backing up your DataStore. It is recommended to choose at least one of these methods to back up your Uptime DataStore. For added safety, you can implement more than one of the options below in case one of the methods should falter. Only one of the options below can be used to restore a backup; the methods cannot be merged when restoring the backup.
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| These backup methods are intended for a single Monitoring Station. Never attempt to merge two or more Monitoring Station configurations in a single database. |
In addition to backing up the Uptime DataStore, it is also important to back up the Uptime configuration files and any customized files. Be sure to follow the recommendations in the Other Files and Directories to Backup section at the bottom of this article.
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Option 1: Creating a tar or zip Archive
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If your DataStore is running on Microsoft SQL Server, you can use the SQL Backup tool to export data. Refer to the Microsoft Developer Network for more information:
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Other Files and Directories to Backup
The following files and directories listed in this section are not part of the DataStore but should also be backed up on a regular basis , especially if they have been modified or tuned.as well.
- <uptime_dir>/license.dat
- <uptime_dir>/UptimeDataCollector.ini (Windows OS)
- <uptime_dir>/uptime.conf
- <uptime_dir>/license.datuptime.jcnf (Linux OS)
- <uptime_dir>/apache/conf/httpd.conf
- <uptime_dir>/apache/conf/php.ini (Linux wrapper.conf (Windows OS)
- <uptime_dir>/apache/php/uptimephp.lax ini (Unix Windows OS)
- <uptime_dir>/dashboards
- <uptime_dir>/gadgets
- <uptime_dir>/plugins
- <uptime_dir>/scripts
- <uptime_dir>/xml
If you have configured SSL browsing in Apache, don't forget to back up the cert files in the <uptime_dir>/apache/conf
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directory.
If you have added MIB files to the <uptime_dir>/mibs directory, you will want to back those custom files up as well.