Chapter 8. Data management

## Chapter 8. Data management

## Backup and restore database

You are able to backup and restore contents of the database used by QuickBuild through data management section of the Administration tab. It is a good idea to backup your database regularly to ensure you can restore your data in case of a hardware failure. Please be noted that the backup and restore process only affect data saved in the database (such as configurations, groups, users etc.), all other contents in the disk (such as generated build artifacts) will not be touched.

| Warning
The backup process may take a long time if the system contains large amount of builds. You can speed up this by deleting unwanted builds. Also it is a good idea to set a reserve by days (or reserve by count ) build cleanup strategy for configurations which will generate many many builds over time (for example configurations created for continuous integration purpose).

Deadlock prevention |  | Data migration between different databases