Backup and Restore History Conversions

Please follow the steps below if you need to back up your history conversions and restore them to another computer.

Backup

1. Install the latest version of pgAdmin 4, which can be downloaded at https://www.pgadmin.org/.
2. Right click on Servers and select Register > Server to connect to the database of FortiConverter:



3. Input a name the server in tab General, click on tab Connection and input the following information:
   1. Host name/address:"127.0.0.1" (or “localhost”)
   2. Username: "postgres"
   3. Password: "portgres"
   4. Click Save.



4. Open the server, right-click on the database django and select Backup…:



5. Select a path in Filename and click Backup:



The backup file, which will be referred as database backup file, would be saved to the specified path.

6. Go to path and backup all the folders, which will be referred as conversion backup files:

C:\Users\<Windows user name>\AppData\Roaming\Fortinet\FortiConverter\conversions

Restore

1. Move the database backup file and the conversion backup files to the computer you would like to restore FortiConverter.
2. Install the same version of FortiConverter as the old computer on the new one. Please do not do any conversion on FortiConverter before restoring the data.
3. Follow the same process in the backup steps to install pgAdmin and connect to the database of FortiConverter.
4. Open the server, right-click the database djangodb and select "Delete/Drop" to delete djangodb.
5. Right click on the database server of FortiConverter and select Create > Database.



6. Input "djangodb" as the database name and click Save to recreate it.



7. Right click on djangodb, select Restore.



8. Select the path of the database backup file retrieved from the Backup process above, and click Restore:



9. Install the version of FortiConverter you want.
10. Go to path C:\Users\<Windows user name>\AppData\Roaming\Fortinet\FortiConverter\conversions and copy the conversion backup files into this folder.
11. Open FortiConverter, and the backup conversions should be accessible on the conversion page.