Restoring flows to a new server

[jdoherty]

The hosting server for our DEV flows has gone kaput. Unfortunately I didn’t have a backup schedule in place for them. I think the folder structure of the server is intact, it’s just that it’s not booting.
So I should be able to get at the Novacura folder on the server.
If I install Novacura Flow Server Manager on a new server and copy the folders FlowServerObjects and WorkFlows from the Novacura directory on the kaput server drive to the new server will the flows be restored?
Wil I be able to view and edit them as normal from FlowStudio if I connect to that server?
I posted a similar question about his before:

Backing up flows

Hi, I am backing up the flows in my PROD environment manually by doing an RMB- Export flows on the Server Manager interface (see attached image) Is there a way of automating this because I won’t be there every day to do it? Thank you. [Exporting flows]

Thank you.

[jdoherty]

Panic over; the drive was not kaput after all; we were able to get it to boot again; the flows are all there, present and correct.

[OlaCarlander]

Good I think those folders togheter with the db could have worked, but there are dependencies so if possible I like the idea of backing the hole files and dqllite-db folders up.

[daniel]

Glad the panic is over… now setup a new Task Scheduler that runs and backups your flow server to a different hard drive using this script from same post:

Backing up flows

You can automate this process with a batch script… Please change sitename, basepath, and ncpath to match your environment. sitename: Your IIS site under which Novacura is running basepath: Where you want your backups to go ncpath: The full path to the Novacura directory within the data folder @echo off setlocal set sitename=Default Web Site set basepath=C:\Users\%username%\backups\Novacura set ncpath=C:\Novacura\Data\Novacura Flow goto adminchk :adminchk ECHO Checking permissions... net se…

[jdoherty]

I only back two folders from C:\Novacura Flow\Data\Novacura Flow\Data;
FlowServerObjects and Workflows
I don’t back up the entire Data folder
I need to do a restore at some stage to test if it actually works.