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How-To: Backup, restore, or migrate IPSentry configuration settings.

Let's face it, sometimes bad things just happen to computer systems.  The worst of which is complete and total hard-drive failure resulting in loss of data, software installations, and configurations.

The last thing you need after correcting this type of problem is to spend hours re-entering all of the servers and devices and alert configurations into IPSentry.

In another situation, you may need to re-deploy the system on which IPSentry is running and migrate IPSentry to a different system - but again, you need to get the settings from one machine to another without sitting down for hours and reconfiguring everything. 

Take the following steps to provide solutions to both problem above.

1. Select Options from the Edit Menu.
    

2. Hit the Export Settings button.
    

3. Select a file name to which you want the settings written.
    

4. Backup this .IPE file for later use.

Now, when you need to recover your settings for one reason or another:

1. Select Options from the Edit Menu.
    

2. Hit the Import Settings button.
    

3. Select a file name from which you wish to import the saved settings.
    

Note: When restoring settings, IPSentry use Merge+Overwrite.  Any settings that are duplicated in the .IPE file will take precedence over existing entries.  Any entries not in the IPE file will remain intact.  Any entries in the IPE that do not exist in the current settings will be added to the configuration.

Also: System specific pathing as well as modem configurations may need to be modified to fit the new system configuration.

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