Restoring ARDI

You can restore a previous ARDI backup by going to the administration page (via the The Sidebar).

• Go to Administration | Restore Database
• Click 'Choose File…' and select your backup ZIP file.
• Hit Restore Database

NOTE - To restore backups requires a fully-working ARDI system to be installed, which takes time and resources to set up. Our preferred method of creating a disaster recovery backup is to create a 'Bare Metal' backup by taking a snapshot of your virtual machine image.

However, backing up and restoring is an excellent way of moving ARDI databases from development to production machines.

Note that the restore process does NOT install new drivers - it simply activates drivers that are already installed. If you are restoring a backup to a fresh ARDI system, please ensure that you have installed all of the relevant ARDI driver files before you attempt to restore the backup.