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Backup and restore ​

Audience: Event organisers protecting event data and recovering from problems.

How to back up an event (and when to), how to restore from a backup, and how to repair a corrupted event.

Status: Stub — not yet written.

What this page will cover ​

Backing up ​

  • [ ] What a backup contains (event data and its downloads, packaged as a zip file)
  • [ ] Auto Backup — Manager writes a zip backup of each running event to its auto-backup/ folder at a configurable interval (5, 10, 15, 30, or 60 minutes). Defaults live in Settings → Auto Backup; each event can override the global default in its Event Details → Auto Backup tab.
  • [ ] How to take a manual backup — the download icon on the event card in the Events list creates a zip on demand
  • [ ] When to back up beyond the automatic schedule (before risky changes, before publishing results, after final results)
  • [ ] Where backups are stored on disk (per-event auto-backup/ folder; manual downloads land in your browser's default download location)
  • [ ] Copying a backup to an external drive or USB stick

Restoring ​

  • [ ] Restoring an event from a backup file
  • [ ] What happens to the current event data when you restore (overwritten? merged?)
  • [ ] Restoring to a different computer (moving an event between machines)
  • [ ] Partial restore — recovering a single event from a backup that contains many

Repairing a corrupted event ​

  • [ ] Symptoms of a corrupted event (won't load, missing data, crash on open)
  • [ ] What repair tools Manager provides (if any)
  • [ ] Recovering from a capture file / replay file
  • [ ] When to give up on repair and restore from backup instead