Recovery of Backup Archive Data

[cpollak]

Dear forum members,

I would like to recover backup archive data from a external HDD into my WinCC OA database (data older than a month which was stored via online-backup).

The backup data is in the form of single files looking as follows:
AR_0001_2014.12.18.-05.15.33
AR_0001_2014.12.18.-05.02.28
etc.

The approach I got from HTML help via deleting content of db-folder and following utilization of Restore.pnl does not work for me (it says OK but no data was moved to db-folder).

I also tried copying the respective needed files directly which did not work. Specifically I would like to recover data from December 15th so I copied the respective archive files from the backup HDD folder to the project db-folder. When trying to access the data, however, it was not to be found.

Any tipps to fix this problem?

[leoknipp]

Hello,

if the files you want to import have been exisiting previously in the specific project you could try the following procedure:
-- configure the backup device for archive 1 at the configuration panels for the value archive (System Management --> Database --> Database configuration)
-- open the "Activity" for the archive with number 1
-- click at the "DIR"-button
Now you should see the archive files existing in the backup directory.

-- select the archive file you want to import
-- click at the button to move the files to the database directory

If the action was successful the files are shown in the list of files with the status "IMP".

Best Regards
Leopold Knipp
Senior Support Specialist