Backing up a station

This procedure summarizes the steps for backing up a remote BACnet station.

Prerequisites: You have admin-level write permissions on the BacnetNetwork and BacnetLocalDevice, at a minimum. The password is not blank, not the default value, and you know what the password is.

Un-hide the normally hidden Reinitialize Allowed property of the Server layer component (child of the BacnetComm container under the BacnetNetwork) and set its value to true.
This value defaults to false. Once the backup is complete, you can hide it again.
Right-click the station node and click Backup Station.

The Local Device’s Backup and Restore State property changes from Idle to Preparation for backup and the station’s BackupService begins preparing a backup .dist, which contains the following:

Station database — config.bog
Alarm history database
History database
Module metadata — information about which version of each module is loaded. The modules themselves are not backed up.

The system exports the .dist file as a File object—part of the configurationFiles property of the device object. The backup client then reads the File object using BACnet file access services.

Finally, the Local Device’s Backup and Restore State property changes back to Idle and normal station operation resumes.

Backing up a station

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