To restore a previous version of a server-based central model, use one of the following two workflows.
- Roll back a local copy of a model and promote it to function as a new central model.
- Restore a copy of the central model from your backup.
Follow these steps to roll back a local copy of a model and promote it to function as a new central model:
- Identify a workstation with a local copy of the central model you wish to roll back.
- Launch Revit.
- Click Collaborate tab
Synchronize panel
(Restore Backup).
- In the Browse for Folder dialog, navigate to the backup folder, and click Open.
- A dialog will open, showing the most recent versions of the .rvt file.
- Select the version whose date and time correspond most closely to the period you wish to roll back to and click Save As... to save this older version as a new model.
- Open and detach this new model and save it to Revit Server as a new central model.
- Direct users to cut new local copies from this new central model and resume their work.
- Optional: Back up the old copy of the model and delete it from the server.
Follow these steps to restore a copy of the central model from your backup.
- Notify users that the model will be rolled back and that activity must be halted.
- Launch Radmin and lock the model you wish to roll back to block user activity.
- Optional: Back up the model.
- Delete the model.
- Verify that the model's cache has been deleted on each local server.
- Restore an older, archived model to the server:
- If the model was archived as an .rvt file, open the .rvt file in Revit and save it to Revit Server as a new central.
- If the model was archived as a folder from the Revit Server Projects directory, simply copy that folder back into the Revit Server Projects directory.
- Have users cut new local copies from this new central model and resume their work.
Note: In each of these cases, rolling back the central will cause users' local copies of the model to sync with central.