By default, backups do not include alarm and history records. To preserve alarms and histories you need to edit the excluded
file values.
Prerequisites: You are logged in to your
NiagaraAX
Supervisor station with admin privileges.
- Navigate to the node in the Nav tree, right-click the BackupServices node and select AX Property Sheet from the popup menu.
The
BackupServices property sheet opens.
- In the
Exclude Files text field, select and delete the following: *.hdb; and *.adb; using your keyboard and mouse.This includes (not excludes) your database files.
- For the
Exclude Directories property, select the following files and delete them using the remove icon (
): file:^history and file:^alarmThis includes (not excludes) alarm and history files.