Restoring a database file from scheduled backups
Warning To avoid possibly damaging the only backup of your database, make sure that you copy the database file you want to restore and leave the original backup file unchanged in the backup folder. Do not move the database file out of the backup folder, and do not use FileMaker Pro to open the database file that is stored in the backup folder.
To restore a database file from a scheduled backup:
1. If the hosted database file you want to restore is currently open, use the FileMaker Server Admin Console to close it.
2. Use the FileMaker Server Admin Console to remove the hosted database.
3. Use your operating system tools to
copy the database file from the
backup folder to the database folder where you uploaded the hosted database file.
If your database file uses
container fields that store objects externally, the backup folder contains an RC_Data_FMS subfolder in which the objects will be stored.
For example, if your database file is named Customers, then the RC_Data_FMS folder could contain a subfolder named Customers that contains the externally stored objects for the Customers database file:
RC_Data_FMS\Customers
Copy this folder and its contents with the database file itself.
If you specified a folder and had that folder backed up, then you must also copy the contents of that folder.
4. Use the FileMaker Server Admin Console to open the restored database.
Note To restore multiple database files in a solution at once, perform the preceding procedure on the set of files if all of the files were backed up together at the same time. If some of the files in the solution were backed up at different times, you must decide whether it is necessary to restore from an older backup folder in which all of the files were backed up at the same time and consequently are all in sync.
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