Getting started with automatic backup

The optional module backup allows you to automatically keep a history of your application AtikTeam on your own server. With it, you can browse your data regardless of network status, service or your subscription.

Activation

First, you need to order this optional module to activate it in the interface. To do this, go to your management console and modify your subscription. Contact us for any question about this.

Principle

A special software installed on your machine will take care of making periodic backups. You will be able to browse this data with a simple internet browser.

Important notes :

  • all projects are saved, enabled and disabled
  • no control access is applied in the backup when viewing data. Indeed, this system is designed for static backup of data online, this is not a local version of the application. As such, all the dynamic features of the application (permissions access to data, full-text search, dynamic generation of schedule etc.) will be missing from the backup.

You can keep multiple backups if you want, in order to provide a guarantee of a traceability and a possibility of returning "in the past" to view data that has changed since.

The technique of data recovery and storage is very fast. Only differences from one version to another are downloaded and stored. Thus, a new backup will not occupy that little bandwidth and storage.

Installation and launch

You must download the AtikTeam Backup Agent that will take care of backups automatically from a computer on your own network. This component exists for MS Windows (10+), as well as for Linux as a static build.

This agent is auto-contained and does not require any installation procedure. Place the file where you like to run it. Remove the file if you do not need it anymore.

Download AtikTeam Backup Agent from GitHub

MS Windows

If you run Microsoft Windows, you must download the version with WINDOWS in the filename. Save this program in a safe folder.

Download AtikTeam Backup Agent from GitHub

To launch it just click on it: a dialogue window opens to inform you of the program's operating status.

To start the program automatically when you start your system, follow the following procedure:

  • right click, then create a shortcut.
  • open the Start menu, then Applications
  • add your shortcut in the Startup menu

GNU/Linux

You can download the Linux version of the agent for your Linux system from this page.

Download AtikTeam Backup Agent from GitHub

  • Save the executable to a folder of your choice
  • make it executable : chmod u + x atikteam-backup-agent ...
  • run it from terminal : ./atikteam-backup-agent(...)

For a summary of options, use the -h option.

Daily operation

The backup program must run in the background to perform the new backups and serve the data. To stop it, close the dialog window.

Browse your backups

Access your backup software with your browser, typically at http://localhost:5500. To change the port, see the settings documentation below.

Enter the saved application, and choose the date of navigation. You can navigate the past using the system of incremental backups.

The display of data is minimal, so you can quickly find your information.

Use the menu at the top of the pages to go back, and click on the date to navigate to another date.

Backup system settings

Access to your backup software is done with a browser internet, at http://localhost:5500.

If this port is not available on your system, specify the launch line of your program the setting - p PORT, and log on to http://localhost:PORT.

Start saving your application

An authorization key is required to start backing up your application. You will find this key in the Admin part of your AtikTeam application (this is your online application, no backup). Check admin documentation. Copy this key, and paste it into your backup application, then validate.

Warning: this security key is a secret token used to authorize the software to access and backup your data. As your own password, do not distribute it, as anyone in its possession would be able to download your data just like you.

Backup settings

Set the parameters in the form of your application, and click save.

First backup

The first backup may take several hours, depending on the size of your application and the speed of your network. Leave it running as long as necessary. You can stop it without issue, it will resume downloading automatically at next launch.

Next backups

The following backups will be much faster thank to incremental backup, and will be done automatically in the background if the program is running.