Chapter 4 • Working with Quality Center Synchronizer

Automatic Backup of the Quality Center Synchronizer Database

The Synchronizer database is backed up automatically every eight hours. Three previous backup files are maintained and then overwritten as new backups are created.

The backup file is named qcsync_db.backup and is located by default in the <Quality Center Synchronizer installation directory>\backup directory on the Synchronizer server. It is recommended that you back up this directory regularly, or change the default backup location to a network drive that is regularly backed up, in order to ease data restoration in the event of local hard disk failure.

For information on changing the default backup location, see “Configuring the Server Options” on page 108.

Exporting and Importing Link Definitions

You can export the definition of a synchronization link to an XML file. This enables you to reuse configuration settings for existing links when creating new links. Exporting the link definition does not export the identity mapping data for the link. If you want to also export the identity mapping data, you can export the link data. For more information, see “Exporting and Importing Link Data” on page 105.

You can also export and import only the field mappings from a synchronization link definition. For more information, see “Creating Field Mappings” on page 66.

This section includes the following topics:

➤“Exporting Link Definitions” on page 105

➤“Importing Link Definitions” on page 105

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