Restoring a Project or Creating a Project from a Template

Scenario
On Desigo CC Server you want to restore a project backup or you want to create a project from a project template using SMC as a very first project.

Your project restore/creation from template sequence may differ if a project already exists in SMC. This is indicated in the procedures, whereever applicable.

Use the same steps to setup the Stand-alone Server, where you work with the project by launching the Desigo CC Client application on the Stand-alone Server.

For working with the Stand-alone Server, you can leave the Server Communication as Stand-alone and the Web Server Communication as Disabled.

For background information, see the reference section.

Prerequisites

• For working with the SMC, the logged in user on the Server computer has Administrative rights.
• The host name of the Desigo CC Server is not more than 15 characters.
• The Windows (local/domain) user, set as the System account user (project’s Pmon user), has the Log on as Service Right set. In addition, it may have Administrative rights.
  For this, you must add a user account to the Administrators group.
  (see https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772524(v=ws.11).aspx ).
• The Setup type – Server is installed along with all the required extensions.
• You have launched SMC.
• You have acquired the password of the restored project/template project, required when logging on to the Desigo CC Client application.
• There is enough free disk space available (at least double the size of the project to be upgraded) on the selected drive of the Server computer for the project that you are about to create or restore from template.
  For example, if a project requires 2 GB disk space, there should be a minimum 4 GB space available on the same drive. This is needed because, when you restore and upgrade a project, a temporary copy of the project is created on the same drive. If there is not enough free space, the restore/upgrade process fails and logs several error messages in the SMC.log file available at [installation drive:]\[installation folder]\GMSMainProject\log.
• Ensure the project backup is
• a valid backup, a project backup with config and db (database) folders.
• unzipped and the backup directory path is known and accessible.
• The Server project you are about to restore using Version 4.0 has the Data version greater than or equal to Version 2.1.
• For linking an History database to the project, an HDB is created and started in SMC.

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