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Switching between a remote and a local server archive

Moving data from a remote archive to a local archive

  1. Stop the VDog MasterService in the Service Control Manager.
  2. Check if all subordinate processes of the VDog MasterService are also stopped. This ensures that no more processes are accessing the server archive and that you receive a consistent copy.
  3. Change the name of the local server archive to vdServerArchiveOld.
  4. Copy the remote server archive to your local hard disk and rename it to vdServerArchiveRemote. This places the two directories vdServerArchiveOld and vdServerArchiveRemote in your local drive.
  5. Delete all directories from the directory vdServerArchiveRemote whose name begins with "VD$".
  6. Then copy these directories from the directory vdServerArchiveOld to the directory vdServerArchiveRemote.
  7. Open the Server.ini file in the directory ..\vdServerArchive\VD$A\Configuration.
  8. Navigate in the Server.ini file to the entry 5508=Path to the old remote archive and delete the value of the key so that only the entry 5508= remains.
  9. Rename the directory vdServerArchiveRemote to vdServerArchive.
  10. Restart the VDog MasterService.

Moving data from a local archive to a remote archive

  1. Stop the VDog MasterService in the Service Control Manager.
  2. Copy the local server archive to the desired location on the network drive.
  3. Open the Server.ini file in the directory ..\vdServerArchive\VD$A\Configuration.
  4. In the Server.ini file, navigate to the entry 5508= and add the path to the new directory in the network drive as the value of the key, e.g. 5508=\myNAS\octoplant\vdServerArchive.
  5. Delete all directories from your local server archive except the following:
    These directories contain the databases and other important data and must always be present on the server.
    • All directories with "VD$" in the name
    • VD_TMP_VD
    • vdog agent setup
    • vdog client setup
  6. Make sure that the user account with which the VDog MasterService is started has all required rights to the remote archive on the network drive.
  7. Restart the VDog MasterService.