Version Control with FactoryTalk AssetCentre Disaster Recovery

FactoryTalk®

AssetCentre (FTAC) monitors your factory automation system and provides centralized tools to minimize downtime due to unauthorized actions or failing devices, and manages the lifecycle of

Rockwell Automation®

hardware devices in the system.

You can use the Disaster Recovery (DR) feature of FTAC to back up, compare, and restore

FactoryTalk® Optix™

applications that are deployed to target devices with

FactoryTalk® Optix™

Runtime (Embedded), and target computers and devices with FactoryTalk Optix Runtime (Software).

This feature requires

FactoryTalk®

AssetCentre version 16 or later with the Disaster Recovery license. You must have the FactoryTalk AssetCentre Desktop Client to utilize Disaster Recovery. A FactoryTalk Optix Runtime (Embedded) asset requires proper configuration of the Addressing Info and Security Configuration. A

FactoryTalk® Optix™

Runtime (Software) asset requires proper configuration of the Addressing Info.

When you use DR to schedule automatic backups, the system compares your

FactoryTalk® Optix™

backup files (.OPTIXZ) against protected baseline files. A compare report notifies you if unauthorized or unexpected changes are detected.

FTAC Archive stores versioned backups for auditing and rollback. If DR detects an issue, you can restore your

FactoryTalk® Optix™

project to a known good state. You simply retrieve the .OPTIXZ file from FTAC Archive, import the file to

FactoryTalk® Optix™

(version 1.6 or later) or

FactoryTalk® Remote Access™

Runtime, and redeploy to your runtime target computer or device.

To get started with

FactoryTalk®

AssetCentre Disaster Recovery, see

FactoryTalk®

AssetCentre Getting Results Guide, publication FTAC-GR002

.