How to restore the Address Manager database from a backup file.
You can restore the Address Manager database from a local backup file. When you restore the database from a backup file, Address Manager automatically creates a backup of the existing database before restoring the database from the specified file.
To restore the database from a backup file, you first upload a backup file to Address Manager. For more information on uploading backup files, refer to Uploading backup files from the Address Manager UI.
To restore the database:
- Select the Settings tab in the sidebar.
- Under Database management, select Database backup and restore.
- Select the Database backups tab.
- Click the ellipses to the right of the row of a database backup file and select Restore.
- From the Actions menu, select Delete Selected. The Delete database backup window appears.
- Under Confirmation, type Confirm backup restore before proceeding to reset the database.
- Click Restore and log out.
Address Manager automatically creates a backup of the existing database before restoring from the selected backup file. The automatic backup appears in the /data/backup directory with the filename proteus.dat.nnnnnnnnnn.pre_restore, where nnnnnnnnnn is a unique identifier. The .pre_restore file is automatically compressed to minimise its size, so it's usually smaller than backup files created by your backup schedule.
You can retain and archive .pre_restore files as you would a normal database backup file, and you can restore your database from a .pre_restore file. To restore the database from a .pre_restore backup file, specify the filename with the execute restore command.