The remote administrator lets you manage the backup of your Dynamic WebDev sites and their data. You can:
· Retrieve a backup performed during the remote update of a site
· Perform a site backup (to use the data files in a Back Office application for example).
To manage a site’s backups:
1. Select one of your Dynamic WebDev sites from the home page.
2. In the site characteristic page, click the "Backup operation" link.
Restoring a backup
Restoring a backup consists in re-establishing the site (HTML pages, images, etc.) and the data files associated in the state they were at the time of the last backup. This last backup has been performed during the remote update of the WebDev site (option "Don’t discard site backup after site update" selected).
Caution:
· Restoring a backup disconnects all the Web users.
· Only the last backup can be restored.
Exporting the site and its data files
This option lets you creative a site archive. This archive will be available locally. The files found in this archive can be extracted to be processed later.
You can for example use a backup performed by the remote administrator to transfer the WebDev site’s data files to the company’s headquarters. These files can later be extracted from the archive, and processed by a Back Office applications built using WinDev.
The backup is made of one or two archive files in the ".WDZ" format.
- a <Sitename>_Fic.WDZ file and a <Sitename>_App.WDZ file if the site files and the data files are located in different directories.
- a .WDZ file only if the data files are in the site’s directory.
These files are created in the FTP transfer directory, defined for the remote installation and update of the site. If you don’t know your FTP account parameters, contact the server administrator.
These archive files may be retrieved:
- either by a WinDev or WebDev application using FTP functions.
- or by a FTP Client program.
These archive files can then be read and decompressed using the archive management functions of WinDev (or WebDev)
Caution: Performing a backup disconnects all the Web users.
See also:
Setting server parameters (option reserved for the server administrator)
Setting parameters for WebDev sites
Distributing the connections granted among the sites