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Backup: Create a backup copy of your Zephyr project in the database. This feature provides a significant safeguard against losing data from your projects. Whether your user accidentally deletes an entire folder from the test repository or there is a data integrity issue with a group of test cases, the backup provides a way to secure your project data and archive them at specific milestones/times. In Zephyr, project backups can be taken manually on-demand or the administrative user can schedule a time for when a project backup is taken.
Restore: This feature allows you to access your previously created backups of projects that were taken. If you have created various versions of your Zephyr project using the Backup feature, the Restore feature allows you to recover, apply, and restore those versions of the project.
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For the best results, we recommend taking backup copies of your Zephyr projects on a consistent and regular basis. This is to minimize the amount of data lost between the backups as anything can happen. By not taking backups on a consistent and regular schedule, there is more potential for data loss as time between backups increases. If you are able to retain multiple copies of your Zephyr project, it provides insurance and flexibility to restore to a specific project backup in the scenario where your project might have corrupted data/etc. If you plan to take consistent and daily project backups, we highly recommend you use our Recurring Backup Job feature so that the backups are performed automatically at a set time.
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We also recommend that before restoring an earlier backup, you create a backup of the existing project to ensure you have a copy of the latest project to make sure you can go back to the latest one in the scenario that you want to “revert”.
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After restoring a project, you need to re-index it. To learn how to do that, see Customize Search Reindex. |
Delete a Backup
1. Click on the third (right) icon to delete the backup of the individual project. This will completely remove the backup from the backup history. Once the project backup is deleted, it cannot be restored or retrieved in the scenario that deleting the backup was a mistake.
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