Once the programs are backed up, You can restore them if anything went wrong with your program. From the Program menu, you can select ‘Backup Backup / Restore’ Restore option to open a submenu and select ‘Restore Program’ Restore Program option to open ‘Available Backup’ popup an Available Backup pop-up (See Image 1).
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If the program has previous backups, you can see a list of those backups in this popuppop-up (See Image 2). But if there isn’t any previous backup, then it will show a warning message with ‘No No Backups found’ found message.
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In this popuppop-up, you can notice two action buttons on the right of each backup.
Restore: This option will open another ‘Restoring’ popup restoring pop-up window.
Download: This option will download the specific backup version of that program. You can review the file json JSON file and import it using ‘import import / export’ export app in DHIS2.
Close: As the name suggest, will close the popup pop-up window without affecting anything.
Restoring Program
This popup pop-up will allow you to fine tune your requirement for the restoring purpose.
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Restore Elements: You can choose which object you want to restore from the backup file. You can simply restore Program if your changes were specific to the Program and you can also chose choose the ‘Data Elements’ Data Elements which in turn will also restore ‘Program Program Stage Data Elements’Elements, ‘Program Stages’ Program Stages and ‘Program’ Program. The indentation shows the Parent-Child relationship between the elements. You cannot restore ‘Child’ the Child without restoring the ‘Parent’ Parent.
Select All / Select None: You can use these buttons to check all the Elements or None of them.
Organisation Units: While restoring, you can keep your current Organisation Unit assignment by selecting ‘Keep Keep current settings’ settings or you can replace all you your existing configuration with backup assignment by selecting ‘Overwrite with backed up configuration’.
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Cancel: As the name suggest, will simply close the popup pop-up window without impacting the program.
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Restore: After selecting all the required option and running dry run, you can click ‘Restore’ button to restore the backed up copy of the program. It will take sometime some time to restore and will show a Success notification