Updating Dr.Web Server and Restoring from the Backup

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Control Center provides the following features for managing Dr.Web Server software:

•Update the Server software to one of the available versions downloaded from the GUS and stored in the Server repository. Description of settings for updating the repository from GUS, is given in the Administration of Dr.Web Server Repository section.

•Rollback the Server software to the saved backup. The Server backups are created automatically during update to the new version in the Dr.Web Server Updates section (step 4 in the procedure below).

Upgrading the Server within version 10 can be also performed via the Server distribution kit. The procedure is described in the Installation Manual, in the Upgrading Dr.Web Server for Windows® OS or Upgrading Dr.Web Server for UNIX® System-Based OS sections.

 

Not all Server updates within version 10 have the distribution kit file. Some of them can be installed via the Control Center only.

 

After the Server upgrade under UNIX system-based OS via the Control Center, the Server version in the OS package manager will not be changed.

To manage Dr.Web Server software

1.Select the Administrating item in the main menu of the Control Center, in the opened window, select Dr.Web Server in the control menu.

2.To open the Server versions list, perform one of the following actions:

•Click the current version of the Server in the main window.

•Click Versions list.

3.This opens the Dr.Web Server Updates section with the list of available updates and backups of the Server. At this:

•The Current version list contains the version of the Server, used at the moment. The Change list section contains the brief list of new features and the list of errors which had been resolved in this version relatively to the previous updates version.

•The All versions list contains the list of this Server updates downloaded from GUS. The Change list section contains the brief list of new features the list of errors which had been resolved in each update.

For the version that corresponds to the first installation of the Server from the installation package, in the Change list is empty.

•The Backups list contains the list of backup copies which are stored for this Server. The Date section contains the information on the date of the back up.

4.To update the Server software, set the option next to the necessary version of the Server in the All versions list and click Save.

You can update only to a later version of the Server regarding to the currently used version.

During the Server update, the current version is saved as a backup (placed to the Backups section), and version to which update is performed, is moved from the All versions to the Current version section.

Backup copies are saved in the following folder:

var → update_backup_<old_version>_<new_version>

During update, the var → dwupdater.log log file is created or supplemented.

5.To rollback the Server software to the saved backup copy, set the option next to the necessary version of the Server in the Backups list and click Save.

During the Server software rollback, the applied backup copy is placed to the Current version section.