WAVE is a 100% cross-platform software. It can support Windows, Linux, MacOS, and ARM-based-Pi.
If an OS change is required on a system:
- Login to the WAVE Media Server using the WAVE Desktop client
- Click the Main Menu Button, navigate to System Administration and then click Create Backup...
- Copy all the backup files and store them to an external drive or storage.
- Reinstall your system with a new OS.
- Install proper version of the WAVE server and the client to your system.
- Login to the newly installed WAVE Media Server via WAVE Desktop client
- Click the Main Menu Button and navigate to System Administration, then click Restore from Backup...
Notice: This migration will discard the motion chunks (for Smart Search), Audit Log and Event Log. The logs listed above will not be migrated.
Migrating System Metadata:
The migration of metadata between OS platforms may pose a risk of losing data which you hoped to retain. Be sure to create backups of all database files and consult with WAVE Support before attempting to perform this migration.
[From Linux to Windows as an example]
- Stop the server
- Fully copy the folders:
- /opt/Hanwha/mediaserver/etc
- /opt/Hanwha/mediaserver/var - Copy and save all archives from every single disks (you can just legacy the HDDs and use them on a new system as well)
- Save all license keys.
- Install the proper version of WAVE on Windows.
- After installation, please first Stop the Server. Additionally, make sure that previously Linux servers are not active to avoid server conflict.
- Open the file etc/mediaserver.conf, copied from the Linux server, and find the serverGuid parameters.
- Execute regedit.exe on Windows Machine.
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Hanwha\WAVE Media Server
Find key guidIsWAVEID and set it to no.
Find key serverGuid and set it as the value you found in Linux configuration file from Step #7. Change key systemName if it's needed. - Open C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\Hanwha\WAVE Media Server and delete all the files in that folder.
- Paste the copied files to C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\Hanwha\WAVE Media Server
It should include:
- ecs.sqlite -- main DB
- mserver.sqlite -- DB with Audit Trail, Event Log, Bookmarks etc.
- record_catalog -- folder with motion data
- ssl -- folder with ssl certificate
- Connect all the storage drives.
If archive was recorded to /opt/Hanwha/mediaserver/var/data, copy /opt/Hanwha/mediaserver/var/data/hi_quality and /opt/Hanwha/mediaserver/var/data/low_quality to an empty disk. - Place the folders inside of WAVE Media. If WAVE Media is not found, create one.
- Make sure that all WAVE Media on each storage drives contain only high_quality and low_quality. All db and .ref files should be deleted.
- Start the WAVE Server. And then login using the WAVE Desktop client, and Rebuild the archive index.
- Old storage drives list can be seen in Storage list in the Client. Try to delete them from UI. If you can't, please, contact WAVE Tech support.
- Issue a license reactivation request on WAVE Support Portal, and provide us the new HARDWAREID. Then reactivate the licenses again to enable recording.