Backing up and restoring appliances - User Guide - Micetro - 25.2.0

Micetro automatically takes a backup of your appliance’s configuration every 15 minutes, capturing any changes made since the last backup. Additionally, a full backup is taken once every 24 hours, and all the incremental backups are managed and cleaned up for you.

If an appliance experiences a crash and becomes unusable, you can use these backups to set up a new appliance as a replacement while maintaining the same IP address.

After restoring an appliance, Micetro automatically detects the new server as uninitialized. To begin using the new server, you need to initialize it manually.

To initialize a server:

1. In the data grid, locate the uninitialized server.
2. Use either the Action or Row … menu to select Initialize appliance.
   
   
   • Use data from Micetro: This option allows you to initialize the server using the data saved in Micetro.
   • Use data from the new appliance: Select this option if you want to initialize the server with the data from the new appliance itself.
3. Select Initialize.