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  2. System Administration

    This section, intended mainly for M-Files system administrators, explains how to manage, maintain, and configure the M-Files system.

  3. Configuring M-Files
  4. Intelligent Metadata Layer
  5. Connection to On-Premises Data with M-Files Ground Link
  6. Backing Up and Restoring a Ground Link Proxy
  • System Administration

    This section, intended mainly for M-Files system administrators, explains how to manage, maintain, and configure the M-Files system.

    • Setting Up and Maintaining M-Files
    • Configuring M-Files
      • Editing the Vault Metadata Structure
      • Managing Users and User Groups
      • Configuring Workflows
      • Named Access Control Lists
      • Installing and Managing Vault Applications
      • Using the Configurations Editor
      • Editing Notification Settings in M-Files Admin
      • Setting Up Web and Mobile Access to M-Files
      • Publishing Vault Content with Classic M-Files Web
      • Reporting and Data Export
      • Event Handlers and Scripts
      • Intelligent Metadata Layer
        • Intelligence Services
        • Connectors
        • Connection to On-Premises Data with M-Files Ground Link
          • Setting up M-Files Ground Link
          • Backing Up and Restoring a Ground Link Proxy
          • Migrating the Ground Link Proxy Database to Microsoft SQL Server
          • Disabling the Ground Link Connection
          • Changing the Location of a Repository Connection
          • Changing the Location of Ground Link Proxy Services
      • Customizing Server and Vault Behavior

Backing Up and Restoring a Ground Link Proxy

We recommend that you back up the Ground Link proxy always after you have made changes to the Ground Link proxy or to the connections over Ground Link. If a Ground Link proxy is destroyed or the data gets corrupted, you can restore the Ground Link proxy from a backup file. The backup file includes the Ground Link configuration and the connector configurations.

This section tells you how to back up and restore a Ground Link proxy.

For information on how to change the location of Ground Link proxies and Ground Link proxy services with the backup and restore operations, see Changing the Location of Ground Link Proxy Services.

Backing Up a Ground Link Proxy

To back up a Ground Link proxy:

  1. Open M-Files Admin.
  2. In the left-side tree view, expand a connection to M-Files server.
  3. Expand Ground Link Proxies.
  4. Right-click a Ground Link proxy.
  5. Click Operations > Back Up.
    Result:The Back Up Ground Link Proxy dialog is opened.
  6. Click the ... button to select the file location for the M-Files backup file (MFP).
  7. Optional: Click Set Account... to run the task with another account than the Local System account. If the file location is on a network drive that the Local System account cannot get access to, you must set another account. On the Set Account dialog:
    1. Select This account.
    2. In This account, enter the name of the user account.
    3. In Password and Confirm password, enter the password of the user account.
    4. Click OK to close the Set Account dialog.
  8. Optional: Select the Overwrite existing files check box if you want to overwrite the existing file in the file location.
  9. Click OK to close the dialog and start the backup.

Restoring a Ground Link Proxy

To restore a Ground Link proxy from a backup file:

  1. Open M-Files Admin.
  2. In the left-side tree view, expand a connection to M-Files server.
  3. Right-click Ground Link Proxies.
  4. Click Restore Ground Link Proxy.
    Result:The Restore Ground Link Proxy dialog is opened.
  5. In Full backup, specify the location of the backup file from which you want to restore the Ground Link proxy.
  6. Select either:
    • Restore using original identity: Select this option to to restore the Ground Link proxy with the existing ID. The existing Ground Link proxy services and the connections to them will be automatically enabled.
      or

    • Restore as a different Ground Link proxy (new identity): Select this option to restore the Ground Link proxy with a new ID. In Name, enter a name for the Ground Link proxy.

      To enable the connections to the Ground Link proxy services, you must remove the existing connections to the original Ground Link proxy services. For more instructions on managing the connections, refer to the connector instructions, such as Installing and Configuring M-Files Network Folder Connector.

  7. In Location for Ground Link proxy data on server, specify the location for the Ground Link proxy data.
  8. Optional: Select the Overwrite existing files check box if you want to overwrite the existing file in the file location.
  9. Optional: If you do not want to temporarily disable the vault applications, unselect the Disable vault applications check box.
    For data security reasons, we recommend to enable the vault applications separately after the Ground Link has been restored.
  10. Click OK.
    Result:The Ground Link proxy is restored from the backup file.
  11. Optional: Enable the vault applications. For instructions, see Installing and Managing Vault Applications.
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  • Backing Up a Ground Link Proxy
  • Restoring a Ground Link Proxy
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