Read the May edition of Water Innovations magazine from Water Online.
And it includes an article written by our own Chris Little!
A Better Way to Back Up SCADA
How server architecture can automatically backup your whole system.
Modern SCADA software systems carry a heavy burden. They help to ensure uptime, contain a wealth of recorded history, and represent a significant investment of development time. Despite this, backing up applications and their data remains a comparatively low priority. Standard backup strategies have limitations. Offline backups leave your system blind while online backups can interfere with your process. Both leave gaps in your history when restoring backups and both require specialized training. Advances in networking provide a more elegant solution. If your application includes one or more networked servers, you can build automatic real time backups for history, configuration, alarms, and I/O tags right into your server architecture. If those servers are in separate locations then you also have an offsite disaster backup of your whole application with no extra effort. For those without a plan or those who fear the day they will need to put theirs into motion, this article is for you.
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