BACKUP FILES FOLDER SETTING

This setting controls where AyaNova stores backup and restore files used by the backup and restore features built into AyaNova.

Warning: this folder MUST NOT be the same location set for AYANOVA_ATTACHMENT_FILES_PATH or AYANOVA_TEMP_FILES_PATH or AyaNova will not start.

Default

If no override is specified AyaNova will store backup files in a backup folder in the location specified by AYANOVA_DATA_PATH setting.

AyaNova expects the backup files folder path to be provided by a config.json property, environment variable or command line parameter named

AYANOVA_BACKUP_FILES_PATH

The value specified should be a string containing a fully qualified file path for the platform, for example: c:\ProgramData\ayanova\backupfiles

Example config.json entry

{
  ...other properties...
  "AYANOVA_BACKUP_FILES_PATH": "c:\ProgramData\ayanova\backupfiles"
}

Example command line parameter

ayanova.exe --AYANOVA_BACKUP_FILES_PATH="/var/lib/ayanova/backupfiles"

Example environment variable

Windows

set "AYANOVA_BACKUP_FILES_PATH=c:\ProgramData\ayanova\backupfiles"

Linux / MAC

export AYANOVA_BACKUP_FILES_PATH="/var/lib/ayanova/backupfiles"