[foxboro] WORKSTATION RESTORE DOCUMENT
- From: "Sieling, Marcel" <Marcel.Sieling@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:45:48 -0400
Hi list,
Since several years our Windows based workstations and Servers contain always
Symantec Backup Exec as part of the product for no extra charge. Using the
software you can make online backups to a network destination from the running
machine without interrupting plant operations. The resulting images can be
stored on any network location (NAS drive or dedicated backup server on the 2nd
Ethernet recommended, don't make backups using the Mesh). Backups last approx.
10 to 20 minutes per machine depending on the amount of data on a 100 MBit/s
Fast Ethernet network, they are considerably faster if the 2nd Ethernet network
is implemented using 1GBit/s hardware. The images can be restored to a bare
metal machine in roughly half the time. After that you have exactly the same
state of the machine as you had while making the backup. We have some clients
that do their backups daily, although we recommend to do them weekly only. We
also recommend to always make full backups to increase availability of the
backup images.
This works without any special knowledge of the Foxboro product.
However restores to CP host machines can be tricky if the content of the CPs
have been changed since the last backup was taken, as then the CPs and the
restored machines will be out of sync. Therefore it's recommended to save the
CP hosts more often (maybe daily). As this can be done online, it's not a
problem to do so. The backup software supports automatic scheduling and
maintenance of old backup versions, if set up properly.
Registered Users with a Service Level Agreement can download the documentation
for the current version of the backup and Restore product offering from our
Global Customer Support Website, the current document (Jan. 2013) is called
"Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery (2011 Workstation Edition and Server
Edition Guide for I/A Series Workstations)" and can be found here:
https://support.ips.invensys.com/content/documents/iaseries/b0700/b0700es_c.pdf
Enjoy!
Best regards / mit freundlichen Grüßen
Marcel Sieling
Technical Sales Consultant
Invensys Systems GmbH - Hermann-Klammt-Str. 1-3 - D-41460 Neuss - Germany
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Von: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Im
Auftrag von Terry Doucet
Gesendet: Dienstag, 23. April 2013 14:48
An: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Betreff: Re: [foxboro] WORKSTATION RESTORE DOCUMENT
Rakesh,
There are product which you can purchase form Invensys and others that will
back up your computers and allow you to recover from a software problem or
hardware failure. The products will differ based on your type of Foxboro
hardware (|Unix, Windows, Windows Server, etc). They are pretty much a step by
step procedure ad don't require a whole lot of Foxboro system knowledge to make
it work unless you are backing up a host AW in which case you need to save
specific Control Processor data before making the backup and when (and if) you
must perform a restore, you need to know the date when the data was saved to CD
or other media and what changes were made to your system after that date and
how much trouble you might get into be restoring ancient data to a host AW.
The System Administration manuals (Foxboro B0xxx) for the hardware that you own
also contain instructions on how to back up and restore the computer. These
manuals require some knowledge of the Foxboro hardware and software and system
(Checkpoints, Uploads, etc) functions. The same warning as above concerning
ancient data applies.
Terry
> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:04:28 +0530
> Subject: [foxboro] WORKSTATION RESTORE DOCUMENT
> From: rakeshinxs@xxxxxxxxx
> To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Hi list,
> Is there a simple or step by step document for restore of any Operator
> Workstation through Ghost CD after the system crashes ?
> Also, additional steps needed to restore AW1001 ( Eng Master Workstation ).
> I am trying to create one doc and checking if something already exist.
> Would help if something already there.
>
>
> Thanks,
> - Rakesh
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