There are three ways that you can access the HPCA Personality Backup and Restore feature:
All three methods invoke the same HPCA application, which is called pbr.exe
. Each time that pbr.exe
runs, it downloads the three migration XML files (see Migration Files) from the HPCA Core server to the managed device and uses these files to perform the backup or restore.
By default, pbr.exe
stores the backup files on—and restore them from—the following location on the HPCA Core server:
DataDir\PersonalityBackupAndRestore\backups
Here, DataDir is the data directory specified during the installation of the HPCA Core. A subdirectory is created under the backups
folder for each managed device that is backed up, and it contains all of the information that is required for a restore.
Note: If you want to store the backup files on the local hard disk of the managed device instead of on the HPCA Core server, you can use the pbr.exe
command with the /localstore
option. In this case, the files are stored on the local disk in the following location:
C:/OSMGR.PRESERVE/PBR.work
All of the information that is required for a restore is stored in this location.
If you are using USMT version 4.0 (included in the Windows AIK for Windows 7), you can specify the /hardlink
option to create a hard-link migration store instead of physically copying the files. This speeds up the backup and restore operations.
See Using the Command Line Interface for details.
Caution: Whether the backup files are stored on the HPCA Core server or the local hard disk of a managed device, they are never automatically deleted. If backup data for a particular device is no longer needed, that backup data can be deleted manually by the HPCA administrator