Altium Concord Pro can hold a broad range of valuable data, including defined users, roles, LDAP Sync tasks, design data (including projects, components, models, templates), and configuration information for the PLS service. A key requirement of ensuring the long-term integrity of this data is backing it up. The standard Altium Concord Pro installation includes a backup and restore tool, accessed via a command prompt.
The default location of the backup tool is in the folder \Program Files (x86)\Altium\Altium Concord Pro\Tools\BackupTool\. The name of the backup tool is avbackup.exe.
Important note:
- Restoring a backup is only possible to the same version of server from which that backup was made
- You must run the Command Prompt in administrator mode to be able to use the Backup and Restore tool.
Manual backup concord pro database
Step 1: Run Command Prompt as administrator
Step 2: Navigate to the backup tool folder
cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Altium\Altium Concord Pro\Tools\BackupTool\
Step 3: Run backup command
avbackup backup -z "C:\backup_folder\Altium_database.zip" -i "C:\Program Files (x86)\Altium\Altium Concord Pro\LocalVault.ini"
Look at the above command, C:\backup_folder\Altium_database.zip : This is location and file name you want to save database too. You can change like yours. This is a basic backup, wait cmd windows turn off, you can go to the folder and copy the database file to anywhere.
backup -z "C:\ConcordPro_1_1_8_%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%%date:~-4,4%.zip" -i "C:\Program Files (x86)\Altium\Altium Concord Pro\LocalVault.ini"
A bit improve back up command, the database file name save with the date backup if you use above command.
Create backup .bat file
You can create a new .txt file then change it to be .bat for example: altium_backup.bat
Edit this file and copy commands:
cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Altium\Altium Concord Pro\Tools\BackupTool\avbackup backup -z "C:\ConcordPro_1_1_8_%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%%date:~-4,4%.zip" -i "C:\Program Files (x86)\Altium\Altium Concord Pro\LocalVault.ini"
Every time you want to run a backup, you just run this file as an administrator. You also can create a windows task schedule to run is every day, week,…
Read more about restoring Altium Concord pro here: https://www.altium.com/documentation/altium-designer/altium-concord-pro-backing-up-and-restoring-your-installation
Read more about Altium designer design tips here: https://pcbviet.com/category/altium-designer/
Good luck,