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McDATA Sphereon™ 4500 Fabric Switch Product Manager User Manual
Product Manager Overview
Backing Up and Restoring Product Manager Data
As long as a Zip® disk remains in the Zip drive of the EFC Server,
critical information from both the Product Manager and EFC
Manager applications automatically backs up to the Zip disk when
the data directory contents change or when you reboot the EFC
Server.
NOTE: To ensure trouble-free backups; it is imperative that you leave the Zip
drive connected to the EFC Server, and leave a Zip disk in that drive at all
times. Removing the disk during a backup or restore can corrupt the database
on the disk. Make sure that data is not being written to or read from the Zip
drive before you remove the Zip disk. The Iomega QuikSync icon, Figure 1-11
on page 1-39, in the Windows system tray spins when data is writing to or
reading from the drive.
The application used for this function is Iomega® QuikSync, a
separate application installed on the EFC Server. QuikSync is
configured to automatically mirror the contents of the EfcData
directory to the Zip drive when the contents are changed or when
you reboot the EFC Server. This directory contains all EFC Manager
and Product Manager data, so it can be copied back to a newly
restored EFC Server to fully recover the preferred operating
environment.
NOTE: The QuikSync application and a Zip drive may not be available if you
are using a customer-supplied server platform for the EFC Management
applications.
The mirroring operation will only occur while a user is logged in to
Windows on the EFC Server PC (independent of the EFC Manager
login).
The data contained in the EfcData directory and mirrored to the Zip
disk includes the following:
• All EFC Manager configuration including:
— Product definitions
— User names, encrypted passwords, and user rights
—Nicknames
— Session options