Archiving the Historical Events Database

When you copy and prune old events (as described in Archiving Historical Events) the events are moved to a separate ICPAM database. Although the events are no longer displayed in Events and Alarms, they can still be included in system backups (see the Understanding Live, Pruned and Archived Events).

Archiving these historical events removes them from the database and saves them to .zip file that can be saved to another location. The file includes a password-protected SQL script, and can be run on an offline database to view the purged events. Archiving historical events also improves system performance and reduces the size of the backup file.

You can right click a filename to save it to a local or network drive, or automatically copy the archive files to a remote FTP or SFTP server.

The historical event management settings are entered during the initial server setup. See the Initial Setup Instructions for instructions.

To modify these settings, use the ICPAM Server Administration utility, as described in the Archiving Historical Events.

 

See also:

Backing Up and Restoring Data