Using WhatsUp Gold Database Utilities

The Database Utilities menu allows you to perform multiple WhatsUp Gold-specific SQL backup and restore operations directly from the Console Application user interface.

• Back Up WhatsUp SQL Database. Select this option to make a copy of your WhatsUp Gold SQL database.
• Restore WhatsUp SQL Database. Select this option to restore your WhatsUp Gold SQL database with a previous version.
• Back Up Network Traffic Analysis SQL Databases. Select this option to make a copy of either your Network Traffic Analysis Current or Archive database.
• Restore Network Traffic Analysis SQL Databases. Select this option to restore either your Network Traffic Analysis Current or Archive database.
• Tools. Launch the Database Tools dialog. This dialog contains the following utilities:
  • Database Performance is used to monitor the size of your database and to manage the index fragmentation percentage of the individual tables.
  • Database Table Maintenance is used to purge expired data from data tables in your database. Please exercise caution when using this utility; data purged through this process cannot be restored.

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