This page describes how to save and restore all your VIRGO video feeds as well as all your VIRGO settings, both global and per-feed settings. This can be useful for following reasons:


  • Backup in case settings are corrupted
  • Editing settings in text file in bulk


Save Settings


To save your VIRGO feeds and settings, do the following:


  1. Open VIRGA REST API Page
  1. Cloud: http://virga.real.com/docs/index.html
  2. On Premises Server: http://<ip_of_server>:8084/docs/index.html
  1. Click **Authorize**
  2. Enter your user and password in this format: <username>:<password>
    Example: mysafraccount:letmein
    Be sure to be careful when entering your credentials; you'll get a 401 error when submitting API calls if you mistype your credentials.
  3. Click the **Authorize** button and then close.
  4. Expand the "Get /config/worker" API.
  5. Click the **Try it out** button.
  6. Click **Execute**.
  7. The VIRGO settings will be printed in the response body. Click **Download** to get the JSON file.
    Make sure result code is "200".  Click the Download button to download the file.


You can edit this file. If you do edit it, you may want to check its syntax after editing with an online JSON editor.


Restore Settings


To restore a set of previously saved VIRGO feeds and settings, do the following.  Ensure you have a good backup /config/worker of file before performing thin order to allow restoring 


  1. Perform steps 1-4 from the *Save Settings* section above.
  2. Expand the "PUT /config/worker" API.
  3. Click the **Try it out** button.
  4. Paste in the previously saved VIRGO settings into the text region
  5. Click **Execute**.
  6. You'll get a 204 response.


If you do not get a 204 response might hav gone  wrong.