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Updated July 8, 2017
posted on July 6, 2017

We had a situation where one of the WF server at our Customer was hit by malware and they had to bring the system down immediately.

Most of the workflows published at this server had been saved at a local drive as well. So we are fine to copy them across without turning on the WF server. 

But there are some workflows, which were published with changes but a latest/updated copy was never saved at windows drive.

Is their a way to get the latest copy of these Workflows without turning the WF Server on?

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replied on July 8, 2017

Workflows are saved to the database when they're published. There are no copies on disk.

Not knowing what kind of malware you're talking about, it's hard to make a recommendation. Your proposed solution would work to obtain a copy of the database. Restoring a backup of the database would also work.

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replied on July 8, 2017

Miruna,

We had a malware attack at UK National Health Service, which brought all systems down.

I have advised our client to install SQL on WF server, restore WF DB copy at this server, get WF server connected to the DB at this local SQL server and turn WF on. We can then export the Workflows from this.

Thanks

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replied on July 8, 2017

Hi Miruna,

Thanks for the advise but they can't turn the SQL server on as well.

Does WF saves designed workflow details in DB only? Does it not save them somewhere on the drive in xml or any other format? The server is currently on but not connected to network, so we can get the files copied from the drive. We do have most of the Workflows copied saved and we can copy them over but the issue where we don't have updated copied saved on drive for some other workflows.

I way I can think of is, to turn the SQL server while it is not connected to network and copy the DB from there. Install SQL on WF sever and configure WF to connect to DB locally. They can then export the workflows. How does this sound?

Thanks 

Uzair

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replied on July 6, 2017

You could install a separate WF Server and hook it into the SQL database (assuming the SQL Server is not on the server you don't want to turn on).

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