Restoring a Backup from an Exported Archived Zip File

This topic describes the steps to restore from an archived backup.

1. Go to service monitor and stop all services such as Flume, Spark, Analytics Server, Visualization Server, and Report Server.
   Note: All services that are running must be stopped before performing a restore.
2. Open services.msc in Windows and stop the service monitor service.
   Note: Stop the service monitor service when you perform a restore of the configuration files. That is when you use -m=ALL or -m=CONF operation modes in the vacli command.
3. Open Command Prompt, go to C:\VoceraAnalytics\vacli directory, and type the command

    vacli restore -m=ALL -S -a=C:\backup\export_BJOHN-DT.company.local_201810201702070608.7z backup_restore.conf

   where

   • -m = ALL is the mode of operation and backs up both data and configuration
   • -S is the secure backup option
   • -a=C:\backup is the location of the exported archive
   • export_BJOHN-DT.company.local_201810201702070608.7z is the exported archive. The format of the archive file is export_<canonical server name>_<timestamp>.7z.

   Note: The -S option ensures that the backup is secured and encrypted. While performing a restore, you must include the -S option in the restore command to restore successfully. If you perform a secure backup, you must always perform a secure restore. Similarly, if you perform an unsecured backup, you must always do an unsecured restore.
   Note: Ensure that you open Command Prompt and run as an administrator to execute the backup and restore commands.
   The backup is now restored.
   Note: You can revert to an initial backup if you encounter issues with incremental backups. Consider the first backup is saved as full_backup.xb.7z. Subsequent backups taken are called incremental backups. In circumstances where incremental backups contain issues and you want to restore to the first backup, use the command

   vacli restore -m=DATA -S -a=full_backup.xb.7z

   However, you must not have performed an export action.
4. Open services.msc in Windows and start the service monitor service.
5. Go to service monitor and start all services such as Flume, Spark, Analytics Server, Visualization Server, and Report Server.
   Upon successful restore, the MySQL service database starts automatically.
   Note: You can only restore an archive created from a particular version of Vocera Analytics onto a target server with the same version.