Backup/Restore

the backup/restore and template tabs allow you to do the following configure and initiate system backups and restore operations to prepare for possible hardware failures, belden horizon data operations provides a disaster recovery plan to support device replacement create detailed, granular backup templates and exchange these templates between edge devices as json files backup/restore tab important backup/restore operations are not intended for replication of configurations these operations will fail when attempted if you create a backup on an instance of belden horizon data operations running on a virtual machine, you can't use the same backup to restore an instance of belden horizon data operations running on a physical device belden horizon data operations offers a backup option which consists of generating a backup file with a list of configuration settings that can be applied to the same device or a new device you can use backup and restore in the following ways from the belden horizon data operations ui from belden horizon data manager an alternative non belden horizon data operations backup option is also available, s ee docid\ eem0hzjeafwm lrnoye9v for more details the following use cases are supported set up a newly installed belden horizon data operations device with a different device’s configuration a user deleted or overwrote a portion of the configuration and wants to reset to a last known good configuration device hardware fails and the device must be replaced with another one see docid\ xfxmz0fu36vtka8bzbes5 device hardware is upgraded see the upload a template section in docid 9u 5kwy504bkcelhg6vyp template tab the template tab allows you to select configurations available for the belden horizon data operations device and download them to a json file, thereby creating an edge device configuration template, which can be used for replication of belden horizon data operations configurations to review what configurations are included in a template file, see docid 9u 5kwy504bkcelhg6vyp you can create multiple versions of edge device configuration files you can then upload the template file to another edge device a successful upload applies the configuration to that device you can also apply templates to belden horizon data operations using belden horizon data manager, potentially changing the configurations for hundreds of edge devices for more information about templates, see docid\ ujgf6md6pwvqd uhlf7ef how backup works upon a backup o peration, belden horizon data operations create a snapshot of a predetermined list of configuration settings (specified in docid\ nzkhag8p8oufrgmnypbwp ) and stores it into a dat file how restore works upon a restore operation, the belden horizon data operations is temporarily set into a blank state then it retrieves all the configuration settings stored in the dat file and applies all the settings into the belden horizon data operations instance appropriately the belden horizon data operations instance is then automatically rebooted choose between backup/restore or download/upload template backup and restore download/upload template purpose restore a hardware damaged belden horizon data operations device clone a belden horizon data operations device to other devices customizability cannot be customized and contains a predetermined list of configuration settings can be customized to contain a list of selectable configuration settings files generated/used dat file json file operation replicate and overwrite the belden horizon data operations device's system state from the backup ( dat) file append (and not overwrite) its configurations settings to the belden horizon data operations device next steps docid\ r75eiao17cdswit1y0xvh docid 3pd38oj5fftb79fips5e8 docid\ zr0ueqoh6oe2mkfpmwwkw docid\ xfxmz0fu36vtka8bzbes5 docid 9u 5kwy504bkcelhg6vyp docid\ eem0hzjeafwm lrnoye9v