Backing up Flow

Before performing any changes to your Flow system you should take a complete backup.

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You should also back up your Flow configuration database on a daily basis. For more information on this please refer to the Operation Guide.

To perform a complete backup follow these steps

1. Backup your configuration database. Refer Backing up a configuration database
2. Make a copy of the entire contents of c:\program files\flow software\ to a new folder. You should retain this folder for a period of time so that you can refer back to it if needed.
3. If you have relocated any components you should make a copy of those too
4. Take a copy of any data files (EDI, XML, Flat Files etc) that are being processed by Flow. By default these will be located in c:\program files\flow software\files\ however your configuration could be writing files to other locations as well.
5. Backup any host systems that Flow integrates to. If anything goes wrong with the integration to these host systems you can then restore them to this backup.