Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Creating the PI Server Scheduled Backup



Creating the PI Server Scheduled Backup
1.      Open windows command prompt, in the command prompt go to the path c:\\PI\adm directory.




2.      Type pibackup.bat <destination path> -install


3.      Click enter will create a scheduled task that will backup the PI Server in the specified folder.

Note: By default, the backup will run every day at 3:15 AM

Remote copy of the PI Backup

4.      Go to the folder  “C:\PI\adm” and select the “pisitebackup.bat.example”


  1. Rename it to “pisitebackup.bat” and edit it with the notepad and set first UNC
path that will be used as the remote location and remove REM and save the file.


6.      Next, open “Task Scheduler” from the Start > Administrative Tools

7.      Select the “PI Server Backup” and right click on it and select properties.


8.      In General Tab, select “Change user or group” and provide ‘administrator” in the object name and click Ok and provide the credentials.


9.      Select “Triggers” tab and select the “Edit” button and change the time to current time and click ok and ok.



10.  The scheduled task will run and after sometime we can see the message “The operation completed successfully”


11.  Check the backup locations in Local system and Remote system.

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