Kevin, The only reason you might want to replicate the Maps (Disabled) folder on the secondary InterMapper server would be if you needed to restore a disabled map while awaiting the primary InterMapper server to come back online. This is assuming that you are also backing up the primary server's InterMapper Settings folder in the event of a complete failure of the system, as I am sure you want to preserve all your chart data, web pages, etc. that are not being copied over to the secondary server. The only problem I can see with licensing is that you will want to be sure not to copy the InterMapper License.txt file from the primary to the secondary server, as that will overwrite the secondary server's license file.
You will want to backup your Preferences file to the secondary server, and if you are using any custom probes, you will want to copy the Probes folder over as well. If you are using any command-line probes that run an application or script located in the Tools directory, you will need to copy that folder over as well. Regards, Janice Losgar Dartware, LLC -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Wigle Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 11:56 PM To: 'InterMapper Discussion' Subject: RE: [IM-Talk] Backing up Intermapper Great thread and coincidental for we are looking at disaster recovery with a second (and maybe third) Intermapper server in different buildings. There are over 4 gigs of stuff (old chart data and logs) but only around 15 megs in maps and maps (backups). And another 10 megs in web pages, icons etc. I have archived some data already. Our intent at the moment is to use FRS to replicate files to a second server which Intermapper is installed with it's own licence but not running but without chart/log data. When the main IM dies, NOC pers would turn on the secondary. Whenever the main comes back up, we would abandon anything on the backup IM, turn it off and bring the main back online. We would suffer the loss of chart data/logs for the period of time the main Intermapper is down. Having said that, is there any particular reason to replicate the disabled maps and backups? Is there a problem having a second licensed server and not using the license from the main server? Can you see anything wrong with this idea? Any improvements? We will be implementing "something" shortly to test. Kevin -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William W. Fisher Sent: 21-Aug-07 13:32 To: InterMapper Discussion Subject: Re: [IM-Talk] Backing up Intermapper Michael wrote: > One big folder is Chart Data. Do I need the chart data folders? I don't > care about the info IN the charts, I just want the charts themselves to be > there if we reinstall. The historical data in the charts isn't need at all, > but I can't re-create the charts themselves, it's over 250 charts!!! The chart definitions are stored in the Map files. The actual chart history (datapoints) is stored in the Chart Data folder, but those files will be recreated anew if you don't back them up. So, if you don't care about the chart history, don't back up the Chart Data folder. > Any other folders we don't really need to backup? We want the maps > (obviously), charts (no data), notifications, notification names, icons. If you have a typical system (i.e. one without custom probes, custom icons, or custom web pages) you should back up these files and directories: InterMapper Settings/InterMapper License.txt InterMapper Settings/Preferences InterMapper Settings/Maps/ InterMapper Settings/Maps (Disabled)/ InterMapper Settings/Maps (Backups)/ If you care about log files, you should also back up: InterMapper Settings/InterMapper Logs/ All the other folders in the InterMapper Settings directory will be re-created by InterMapper the next time it starts up, if they don't exist, with their default contents. Regards, Bill Fisher Dartware, LLC ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
