Backup and Restoration

You can back up Surveillance Station and restore it to a previous version with the Hyper Backup package in DSM.

To back up Surveillance Station:

  1. Go to DSM > Hyper Backup to start the Backup Wizard.
  2. Follow the wizard, and choose Surveillance Station when you are prompted to select the applications to back up.
    Note: For more information on the preceding operations of the Backup Wizard, please refer to the Help article of Hyper Backup > Data Backup > Create Backup Task.
  3. After the backup task is complete, the following Surveillance Station configurations will be backed up:
    • Surveillance device settings
    • CMS settings
    • Recorded events
    • Layout in Live View
    • Notification settings
    • E-map settings
    • License key
    • Log
    • VisualStation settings
    • Joystick settings
    • Snapshots
    • Action Rule settings
    • Axis Door Controller settings
    • IP Speaker settings

Note:

It is not supported to restore your backup of Surveillance Station 6.0 and earlier versions.

To restore Surveillance Station:

  1. Go to DSM > Hyper Backup to restore the desired backup task.
    Note: For detailed steps, please refer to the Help article of Hyper Backup > Restore.
  2. After the restoration is complete, the current settings and data of Surveillance Station will be overwritten.