Guide

Updating Layers Maintained in Another GIS
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Back Up
To back up a database, right-click it in the tree view and click Backup/Restore. In the Backup/Restore
dialog, click the Backup button, and then specify the name of the backup and location to create it in.
Then click OK.
Note: The destination directory of a backup operation must be one that your SQL server account has
permissions to.
Restore
To restore a database backup, open the Backup/Restore dialog and select Restore From File, if the
database backup does not appear in the history list, or select the backup from the history list and click
Restore. In the Restore dialog, specify the database name that the restored backup should be given,
then click OK.
Note: The destination database of a restore operation has to be the source database or a database that
does not yet exist on the server. For example: Take two databases “region1” and “region2” and create
backups of both, then restore the “region2” backup. You can either give the restored database a new
name like “region2_restore” or you can tell Database Manager to replace the existing “region2” database
with the backup. But if you try to name the restored database “region1,” an error will be reported.
For more detailed instructions on the backup/restore procedure please see the XMap Help topics Backing
Up a Database and Restoring a Database.
Updating Layers Maintained in Another GIS
You can use the Import-Replace or Import-Append features in the Import Wizard and Bulk Importer to
update layers in XMap that are maintained in another GIS application, such as an ArcSDE database.
For more detailed instructions on the Import-Replace and Import-Append features, see the XMap Help
topics Importing a Layer into a Database and Bulk Importing.
Database Subscriptions, Synchronization, and Redlining
This section describes how to set up and manage database subscriptions so database users can perform
synchronization and redlining against the layers they are subscribed to. Database subscriptions can be
created only for layers in enterprise databases (any database created using XMap Enterprise).
If you maintain updates to subscription layers in an application other than XMap, you can use the Import-
Replace and Import-Append features described in the previous section to update the subscriptions
layers in XMap.