How can I restore my Master Site after it has become permanently unavailable?

 

If your master site somehow becomes unavailable through theft, system failure, or other mishap, you will lose your only link to RMS. To restore this link it will require that you create a new master QCS site and change the master site information in RMS so that RMS will recognize the new master site unless you had made a backup of your master site database. As this represents a potential security breach you will have to recreate your remote sites in your new master site so as to reconnect them to the contract.

 

Creating a new master site if you had a backup of your database

If you have a recent backup of your master site database you can restore the master site by following these steps:

1.Install QCS onto your computer (see How to run the QCS Setup Application).

2.Open QCS and after logging in select the "File | Restore Database" menu option to open the Recover Database dialog.

3.Select the database backup file to use in restoring and then click on the [Restore] button.

4.Once the restore process is complete you will need to log out of QCS and restart it. After QCS has been restarted you will have all of the data and remote sites present at the time when the database was backed up.

 

Creating a new master site if you did not have any recent backup or remote sites

If you did not have any remote sites you will be able to create a new master site and when importing from RMS recover all of the data that RMS has. To do this you will need to perform the following steps:

1.Install QCS onto your new master site computer. Follow the instructions given in the section titled How to run the QCS Setup Application. At this point you will have a new Site ID and an empty QCS database.

2.To re-add the contract to your new master QCS site, follow the instructions in the section titled How to "Add" a contract to QCS and you are done. Remember that any data you had entered into your old master site that was never exported to RMS will be lost.

 

Creating a new master site if you did not have any recent backup but had remote sites

If you had remote sites that were registered by the old master site for this contact, you do not have a recent backup, and you want one of your remote sites to be the new master site you will need to perform the following steps:

1.Decide which remote site you wish to be your new master site. You should select the remote site that has ownership of the most amount of modules or the site that has ownership of key modules. The reason for this is that once RMS is set to recognize the new master site any remaining remote sites will be removed from the contract and will have to be re-added by the master site (see Registering a remote site at the master site). It is also displayed in the center (top) of the opening screen of QCS.

2.Using the ID of the site selected in step 1, follow the instructions in the subsection titled "This site is the first QCS site for this contract" in the help topic How to "Add" a contract to QCS.

3.Locate the site ID of the QCS site you selected in step 1. You may find it in a number of places in QCS but one place you will find it is by selecting the "Help | About" menu option. The site ID will be shown in the About window. It is also displayed in the center (top) of the opening screen of QCS.

4.Contact your USACE representative and give them your QCS site ID. They will register your site ID to the RMS contract and create an export file for you with the new master site information.

5.Login to your QCS site that is to be the new master QCS site and open the "Import/Export | QCS" module and then click on the [Import from QCS] button. Although you will be importing from your old master site, this action will update the remote site with information from RMS that it is now the new master site.

6.Exit from the contract and then reopen it. The remote site should now be the master site. You will have to re-add any preexisting remote sites.