Archive

Create archive

The data related to a project can be exported into an archive. Choose Data - Archive - Create archive... from the menu. A window as shown below will open.

Select the project you want to create an archive of and click on the Find the data button. The program will scan the data for all informations related to the project and include them in the archive as shown below.

The data related with the project will be imported into temporary tables to allow you to inspect them in advance of the creation of the archive (use the buttons to see the data). To create the archive, click on the Create the archive button.

A directory will be created containing a XML file for every table and a protocol file containing a summary of the archiving event. 

 

Reset database

Before you restore an archive, please make sure that the data from the archive do not interfere with the data in the database. In order to avoid problems you should clean the database from any user data. To clear the database from any user data, choose  Data - Archive - Reset database... from the menu. A window as shown below will open listing all tables and the number of data within these tables. Click on the Reset database  button to remove any of these data including any data in the log tables.

 

Restore archive

To restore an archive choose Data - Archive - Restore archive... from the menu. A window as shown below will open listing the tables in the database. To restore an archive click on the Choose archive directory button and select the directory containing the archive files. Next click on the Read data ="" button to import the data from the XML files into temporary tables.

With a click on the buttons you can inspect the content of the temporary tables. Finally click on the Restore the archiv button.