Databases Backup Through Symmetry

This guide is now available via a video demonstration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGAZ8nvgTdU

Introduction

There are two main ways to backup Symmetry Databases, the first using Symmetry Application, and the second using SQL Server Management Studio. In this article we will explain how to backup the databases using Symmetry.  

Backup Symmetry Databases  

Step 1: Open Symmetry and go to Operation \ Backup       

Step 2: In the Backup Window below you can Browse to select the Backup Location, also you can select Manual Backup \ Immediate option to take an Immediate backup, or you can Enable the Timed Backup to schedule the backups, and the backups will be taken on regular basis: 

Step 3: Once you selected Immediate option, then click OK. In the background the backup files will be created on the Backup Location we defined.

Step 4: Please use File Explorer and open the Backup Location, you will get three files, the Multimax.ini configuration file, Multimax database (configuration data), and MultimaxTxn database (transactional data).

Please check the Video below for further details: