Updating Dr.Web Server and Restoring from the Backup |
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 section (step 4 in the procedure below).
To manage Dr.Web Server software 1.Select the item in the main menu of the Control Center, in the opened window, select 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 . 3.This opens the section with the list of available updates and backups of the Server. At this: •The list contains the version of the Server, used at the moment. The 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 list contains the list of this Server updates downloaded from GUS. The 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 is empty. •The list contains the list of backup copies which are stored for this Server. The 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 list and click .
During the Server update, the current version is saved as a backup (placed to the section), and version to which update is performed, is moved from the to the 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 list and click . During the Server software rollback, the applied backup copy is placed to the section. |