\TeamworkServerProjectStoreBackupTool.exe question (windows)

[Anonymous]

Im looking at http://www.archicadwiki.com/Teamwork/BIMServerBackupScriptPC

It seem kinda strange to dump a backup at the local PC. I don't understand why we cannot dump the backups at another server.

I've tried testing with different settings, and I've found that if one sets the following settings in Windows you can use a network path as target.

"C:\Program Files\Graphisoft\BIM Server\Server Modules\1400\TeamworkServer\TeamworkServerProjectStoreBackupTool.exe" "\\backupserver\BIM-backup\AC14\data"

The trick at the \\server\BIM-backup share is to add the computer name as a permission to the share- and security-tab. This is because the backuptool uses some kind of service which is not identified as your user. Adding the BIM-SERVER$ (computername is BIM-SERVER) will accept any local account from the BIM-server.

So.. I'm now a bit confused. I think the wiki-page for the backup is a bit hard to understand. Why does one backup locally and then robocopy things afterwards? Disk space for production-servers is expensive so we would like to not have backups locally at the active BIM-server.

So can I just run TeamworkServerProjectStoreBackupTool.exe (AC14) and TeamworkServerBackupTool.exe (AC15) directly to the UNC path?

[Ed_Brown]

Hal07,

Your solution to back up directly to a network drive is fine.

The reason to copy locally is basically for two reasons.
1) To avoid having to muck around with permissions. (but you solved this fine)
2) Speed. The backup over the network is in general significantly slower than backing up locally and then copying the results to the backup server.

If the speed is not an issue (and depending on hardware, it may not be an issue at all), you should feel free to use your method.

Ed

[Anonymous]

okay thanks for the reply!

Now..
How does this work? can I schedule
"C:\Program Files\Graphisoft\BIM Server\Server Modules\1500\TeamworkServer\TeamworkServerBackupTool.exe" "\\server\BIM-backup\AC15\data"

and run this every night?

Will it overwrite existing backups or add to them?
Do TeamworkServerBackupTool report errorlevel when failing?

[Ed_Brown]

Hal07,

The backups are not incremental. So the first answer is that it will overwrite the file that was there before. Though, the logs that are written to TeamworkServer/Logs are accumulative.

The tool will return 0 if it was successful and a number larger than 0 for errors.

Ed