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• A Master Database that serves as an anchor for all the projects.

• A Project Database for every project, which is stores the associated project artifacts. Every Project Database is named as Projectname_projectdb.

• A Result Database for every project, which stores the results of all the test suite executions. Every Result Database is named as Projectname_resultdb.

Best Practices

Qualitia recommends

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the following best practices for project backup and restore.

• Integrate your project with a version control tool (SVN or Git).

• Take Backup the backup for database, GIT/SVN, custom actions, and reports daily.

• While taking a project backup, ensure Ensure that you perform the following actions while backing up a Qualitia project:

  • Take the backup for DatabaseBack up the database, custom actions, reports, and SVN/GIT at the same time so that all the artifacts are in the same state and are synchronized with each other.

  • Users must stop their work while taking Ensure that no user is working while backing up the project backup.
    Tip: Close Stop the Qualitia license server temporarily to stop the users from using Qualitia.

  • Backup the constraints and triggers for the following databases:

    • Master Database

    • Project Database

    • Reports Database

  • If you are do not using use a version control tool, then for every project ensure that you take back up the backup of the following folders for every project:

    • Project Path, which stores the test cases and tasks as XML files.

    • Custom Action Repository Path, which stores the custom actions.
      Note: To know the location of these folders, click Setting > Configuration Settings Setting > Dependency.

  • Take the backups of the constraints and triggers for the following databases:

    • Master Database

    • Project Database

    • Reports Database

  Similarly, while restoring a Qualitia project, ensure

  • • Backup ​the TFS folders from Qualitia Server for the projects that are integrated with the TFS/Azure DevOps projects

• Ensure that you restore the constraints and triggers for the following databases while restoring a project::

  • Master Database

  • Project Database

  • Reports Database
    Note: If you restore a project without restoring the backup of its constraints and triggers, then after the project is restored, the object creation may failfails.

• Before upgrading the Qualitia Automation Studio to a higher version, take a backup for all the projects and follow all the best practices recommended for backing up and restoring the projectprojects.