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Transferring Data between Databases

You can transfer data between databases on different platforms, between databases that have different formats, or both.

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Caution    Remember, before doing anything that affects your database, including transferring data between databases, shut down the NerveCenter Server and back up the database.

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To transfer data, you'll need to know how to:

• Export, or back up, data (Backing up the Database)
• Import, or restore, data (Restoring the Database)

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  Caution    If you are going to convert a 2.7 flat file database, you must do so from the directory where all files that make up the database -- *.ncdb, alarm_sum.def, sysobjid.dat, *.ovhosts (optional), and *.ncdb.nts (optional) -- are located.

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  Note    Note to MS-Access Database Users

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During a NerveCenter 3.7 installation, if an existing NerveCenter 3.6 installation is found, the installation program renames the:

• NerveCenter 3.6 MS Access database (NCAccess.mdb) to: NCAccess_36.mdb
• NerveCenter 3.6 SerializeDB utility (SerializeDB.exe) to: SerializeDB_36.exe

After installation, if you want to serialize an existing NerveCenter 3.6 database, run SerializeDB_36.exe using NCAccess_36.mdb as the database to produce a new .asc file.

To serialize a NerveCenter 3.7 database after installing NerveCenter 3.7, run SerializeDB.exe using NCAccess.mdb as the database to produce a new .asc file.