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For SmartServer 3.4 and higher, see Managing the SmartServer SD Card. |
The Storage widget provides the ability to view system information including internal flash memory, CPU utilization, and log sizes, as well as to perform system and database backup and restore operations. It also provides the ability to change logging settings (data and/or event logging, and storing on an SD Card).
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Warning: You cannot install a USB flash drive into a SmartServer with any USB network interfaces, such as the U60 FT network interface. As a result, you cannot use a USB flash drive for data log storage if you have any USB network interfaces attached to your SmartServer. Instead, use the SD Card for data log storage. |
This section consists of the following:
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- Connect and log into to the SmartServer. See Connecting to Your SmartServer for more information.
- Enter the following command to change to the /media/sdcard/backups directory:
cd /media/sdcard/backups Enter the following command to view the directory file contents and its size:
ls -s
The database and system backup files are stored with the date and time of their creation encoded into the name using the format yyyy-mm-dd-hhmmss as shown in the following examples:Note Note: Database backups are .zip files and full system backups are .tgz files.
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10258111 May 6 23:19 SmartServer-DB-Backup-2021-05-07-031940.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 878744783 May 7 00:12 SmartServer-System-Backup-2021-05-07-035021.tgzUse the
rmcommand to remove a file(s) as shown in the following examples with the date and time specific to files:rm SmartServer-DB-Backup-yyyy-mm-dd-hhmmss.ziprm SmartServer-System-Backup-yyyy-mm-dd-hhmmss.zip
Use the following command to remove all of the contents of the /media/sdcard/backups directory:Warning Warning: Be sure to only perform this command to remove the contents of the /media/sdcard/backups directory.
rm *
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Open the CMS Storage widget.
Note Note: To best view all of the information on this widget, click the Expand button /wiki/spaces/TEMP/pages/44631776 ( 
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Click ERASE.
The following dialog box appears:
Click OK to erase the CMS database stored on the SD Card, as well as all the contents on the SD Card.
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Open the CMS Storage widget.
Note Note: To best view all of the information on this widget, click the Expand button /wiki/spaces/TEMP/pages/44631776 ( ). Click FORMAT.
The following confirmation dialog box appears.
- Click OK to reformat the SD Card and erase all of its content.
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