Archive Check-In with Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery provides two different basic operations that can affect the archive:

Backup

and

Backup & Compare

. By default, the

Backup

operation will upload the asset’s configuration file and check it into the FactoryTalk AssetCentre Archive without doing any comparisons, regardless of whether or not the file is different from the latest version already checked into the FactoryTalk AssetCentre Archive.

In contrast, the

Backup & Compare

will upload the asset’s configuration file and compare it to a designated version already checked in to the archive, but by default, will not check the uploaded file into the archive. To use this function to also check the file into the FactoryTalk AssetCentre Archive, the

Promote New Upload to Master

property of the device within the schedule must be set to true. This will cause the uploaded file to be checked into the FactoryTalk AssetCentre Archive when differences are found between it and the latest version already checked in, and will automatically promote the uploaded version as the master version of the file.