Backing up Power Monitoring Expert

This section provides information on backing up the following necessary Power Monitoring Expert components:

• Power Monitoring Expert databases
• Power Monitoring Expert config folder
• Power Monitoring Expert diagnostics

When backing up Power Monitoring Expert (PME), the following assumptions are made:

• The backup applies to a standalone server implementation.
• That the new PME server has the same name as the original.
• That the same version of PME and SQL Server are used on both the new and old servers.
• The backup does not include the following items, which can be configured again for a new instance:
  • Dashboard Images
  • Dashboards
  • Data Center Edition Images
  • Database archives
  • EWS config
  • Report Subscriptions
  • SQL Script Files