Migrate Ingress from Old PC to New PC (MDB)
INTRODUCTION
Database management has received an interface overhaul, allowing for swift backups and restores. Ingress itself is evolving to enhance the user experience, making navigation a breeze. These enhancements contribute to an overall performance boost for Ingress.
BENEFIT
This tip, included in the latest Ingress release, assists and complements the first-time user experience by simplifying engagement with basic backup and restore functions within Ingress's Database Configuration.
PROCESS – METHOD 1
To Backup the Database in the Old PC
Step 1 – In the old PC, go to System Settings Tab.
Step 2 - Select Database Configuration.
Step 3 – By default, the database will be saved in Fingertec Backup
in the (C:) Drive. Then click on the Backup Dump and the backup will commence
automatically.
To Restore the Database in the New PC
Step 1 – In the new PC, Go to System Settings > Database
Configuration > Click Browse.
Step 2 - Select the Ingress database and Click Open to choose the
link.
Step 3 – Upon click Restore, a popup window will appear and ask
for confirmation for restoration. Click on Yes. Another popup window will
appear and shows progress bar for the data restoration.
Remark: Please take note that some database will take longer than usual to backup depending on the size of the database, PC performance and also PC processor.
PROCESS – METHOD 2
For MDB database, the database can
also be found stored in a specific folder location. You may found this folder
in the Local Disk (C:) > Program File (x86) > Fingertec Worldwide >
Fingertec Ingress > Ingress. In that specific folder, you can see the
database as a Microsoft Access Database (MDB) format. The size of the file
depends on the transactions and number of users stored in the database and can
reached maximum size of 2GB.
Step 1
Copy this file in a pendrive.
Step 2
Paste the file into the new PC at a designated folder.
Step 3
Open Ingress, go to System Settings tab > Database
Configuration > Database Management.
Step 4
Browse for the MDB file that you had paste in the new PC, then
Restore. Upon restoration, a window popup will appear and ask for restoration
confirmation.
Step 5
After restoration has completed, another window popup will appear indicating that the restore process is successful.
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