HP Network Direr Software Products manual Install LOCATION\backups\lost

808CHAPTER 19: BACKING UP DEVICE CONFIGURATIONS

To locate a backup file you will need to know:

■The IP address of the source device at the time the backup was made.

■The date and time of the Device Backup operation that created the backup file

All backup files have the file extension .xml

When deleting unwanted backup files you should take care to also delete any auxiliary files referenced by the backup in order to conserve hard disk space. Auxiliary files to a backup have the same filename as the backup file but a different extension (e.g. bak, unit1, module*)

Key Considerations The following section provides assistance when using Backup, Restore and Setup.

How Backup Files are Before the Device Backup operation saves a backup for a device, it Discarded performs a consistency check. The consistency check looks for any

existing backups that conflict either with the physical identification or the physical configuration of the current device. Any existing backups that fail this consistency check will be discarded before a new backup is saved. This happens if:

■There are existing backups associated with the physical identification of the current device but the physical configuration stored in the existing backups does not match the physical configuration of the current device.

■There are no existing backups associated with the physical identification of the current device but there are existing backups associated with two or more other physical identifications that partially match the physical identification of the current device. This can happen if you combine units from two or more existing devices to form a new device.

Backup files that are discarded are not deleted from your hard disk but are moved to the following directory:

<INSTALL LOCATION>\backups\lost

The default install location of 3Com Network Director is:

C:\Program Files\3Com\3Com Network Director