Backup and Restore
The 7.00 provides a means for backing up all of its configuration settings and customer data (including messages and scheduled notifications) on a regular basis, and for restoring from a specified backup when necessary.
It is good practice to perform regular system backups so that you can restore the system to a previous known good state should a serious problem arise (such as data corruption). Backup and restore can also be used to transfer the configuration for a site from a test system to the site's system by programming the configuration on the test system, running a manual backup, copying the backup file to the customer system and then running the restore process on the customer system.
The backup and restore processes are described in the following subsections: