Preparing the BackupService

By default, backups do not include alarm and history records. To preserve alarms and histories you need to edit the excluded file values.
Prerequisites: You are logged in to your NiagaraAX Supervisor station with admin privileges.
  1. Navigate to the Config > Services node in the Nav tree, right-click the BackupServices node and select AX Property Sheet from the popup menu.
    The BackupServices property sheet opens.
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  2. In the Exclude Files text field, select and delete the following: *.hdb; and *.adb; using your keyboard and mouse.
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    This includes (not excludes) your database files.
  3. For the Exclude Directories property, select the following files and delete them using the remove icon (Image): file:^history and file:^alarm
    This includes (not excludes) alarm and history files.