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Export/Import Global Dashboard Information

In a Global Dashboard domain, the Central Primary Server contains the grouping configuration information for the registered Branch Primary Servers. In Arcserve Backup, you can promote a member server to a primary server or demote a primary server to a member server. If during this promotion/demotion process you also are changing which primary server will be configured as the Global Dashboard Central Primary Server, you may want to continue to use the collected information from the old Central Primary Server. Global Dashboard lets you export (and save) this information from the old Central Primary Server and import it into the new Central Primary Server.

For each of the following scenarios you should consider exporting the Global Dashboard information prior to performing the task

• Demoting the Central Primary Server to a member server
• Promoting a member server to the Central Primary Server
• Changing the Central Primary Server database to Microsoft SQL Server Express or Microsoft SQL Server 2000. (Global Dashboard does not support Microsoft SQL Express or Microsoft SQL 2000, and as a result this server will no longer function as the Global Dashboard Central Primary Server).

  Notes:

  • If the server is a Central Primary Server in a Global Dashboard domain and the new selected database is Microsoft SQL Server Express or Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (which are not supported by a Central Primary Server), you may want to export and retain the Global Dashboard information prior changing the database. After the change database operation is completed, the Global Dashboard information will be lost because the server will no longer be a supported Central Primary Server. If you want to retain the grouping configuration and the registered branch information, you need to export this Global Dashboard information to a temporary location before performing the change database operation.
  • If you change the Central Primary Server database from one SQL Server to another SQL Server, you do not need to export the Global Dashboard information.
  • If you overwrite the Arcserve Backup database (ASDB) for the Central Primary Server, you need to manually perform a "Re-register" operation from all associated Branch Primary Servers because the branch configuration information will also be overwritten. The "Re-register" operation will perform the full synchronization automatically.