Backing up the WhatsUp Gold databases
If you are migrating your WhatsUp Gold database and/or migrating a WhatsUp Gold installation that uses a database instance local to the machine running WhatsUp Gold you must back up the database files prior to completing the applicable migration procedures.
: Any data collected from the time you back up the databases to when you restore them on the new server will be lost. We recommend executing these procedures during non-peak times when minimal downtime can best be tolerated.
To back up WhatsUp Gold databases:
- Validate the collation of the SQL Server matches the current collation of the source SQL Server installation.
- Launch the WhatsUp Gold console application.
- Select .
- Enter an identifying name for the WhatsUp database backup and save the .bak file.
- Select .
- Enter an identifying name for the NetFlow database backup and save the .bak file.
- Select .
- Enter an identifying name for the NFArchive database backup and save the .bak file.
- If the destination Microsoft SQL Server is installed on a remote computer, copy the backup files (.bak) created during the backup process to the remote computer.