Saving a station
A station save captures all changes to the station’s object spaces (components, alarm, history) to flash memory, saved as
the files config.bog, alarm.zip and history.zip. You should save a station before upgrading and on other occasions.
Prerequisites: You are working in the web UI.
- Navigate to and click the HsqlDatabase tab.The property sheet view opens.
- Confirm that
Defrag On Saveis set based on your requirements.Selectingtrueconfigures the system to empty space and compress (de-fragment) the database during the save station job. In a controller station, and depending on the volatility of your database, this de-fragmentation step could take a significant amount of time.Selecting
falseconfigures the system to ignore empty space in the database, and just save the database as it is. This is the quicker option, however, and, again, depending on your database, you should regularly schedule a station save with de-fragmentation. - Navigate to .The Maintenance view opens.
- Do one of the following:
- Click Save Station. If
Defrag On Saveis set totrue, the system de-fragments the database as part of the save job. If it is set to false, the job proceeds more quickly because no de-fragmentation takes place. - Click Defrag And Save Station. If the HSQL database is configured for
Defrag On Saveset tofalse, this button overrides thefalsesetting and de-fragments the database along with the save job.
- Click Save Station. If
You can also configure Defrag on Save in