Backing up an Archive Manually

Before you begin

Ensure you have enough hard drive space on your default backup location before backing up your archives.

Note:

Ensure you have enough hard drive space on your default backup location before backing up your archives.
Always back up archives before a planned Historian software product upgrade.
Use Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service when backing up archive files that are more than 2 GB in size or when backing up more than the last two archives. For more information, refer to Back Up Archives with Volume Shadow Copy Service.

Open the Data Store Maintenance screen.
In the archive window, select an existing archive.
On the Archive Details tab, click Backup .
Save the backup file to the default archive backup file location (preferably different than the default archive file location).
A backup successful message will appear.
In the archive window, select the same archive.
On the Details tab, click Close Archive.
If Automatically Create Archives is enabled, a new archive file will be created and will become the current archive.
In the archive window, select the closed archive and click the Remove button.
The closed archive is removed from the list of archives in the Historian Administrator, but not deleted from disk.