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Enabling Automated Project Backups

There is an internally written backup utility for backing up an ABBYY Flexicapture Project to an AWS S3 bucket. To enable this on a client system, follow the below steps:

  1. On the client's server *IMPORTANT, this must be the ABBYY Processing Service as FCAdminTools.exe is used)* download the latest release of the backup utility [](https://wfd-internal-aws-081fe2b.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/Releases/latest.zip)[https://wfd-public.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/ABBYY+Utilities/WFD.AbbyyBackupUtility.zip](`https://wfd-public.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/ABBYY+Utilities/WFD.AbbyyBackupUtility.zip)

  2. Unzip the application files to a local folder, following a standard naming convention of C:\wfd\Backups\WFD.AWS.BackupUtility

  3. Execute the WFD.AWS.AbbyyBackup.exe program

  4. Follow through the initial config detailed in the console window, for this you will need:

  • AWS Access Key
  • AWS Secret Key
  • AWS Bucket Name
  • ABBYY Project Name
  • ABBYY Server Name (this is NOT including the base URL e.g. [http://localhost](http://localhost) OR [https://europe.flexicapture.com](https://europe.flexicapture.com))
  • ABBYY Tenant Name (Leave blank for an on-premise install)
  • ABBYY User (an ABBYY user name that has ABBYY Admin rights. You may need to create a new user in Admin & Monitoring console. If this is required, use the username "apiaccess")
  • ABBYY password (if a new user is created, the password will be as set above)
  • Temporary download location (a local temporary storage path)
  • ZIP File Password (the password to use when encrypting the generated ZIP file) `NOTE: this should stay on the client-server and not be stored elsewhere.

  1. Once configured, the application will automatically execute

  2. If successful, setup the executable to run as a daily scheduled task

By default, the backup utility will only keep files in S3 for max 7 days. After which they will be automatically cleared down.