Automatically back up your Site.xml file

Overview:
This KBA will explain how to make Essentials manager automatically back up your site.xml file so that you can roll back your changes if you need to.  You can set how many backup files you want to keep, and rotate them when the limit is reached.  

Solution:

1. Navigate to the folder where you REST manager web.config file is (Here by default: C:\Program Files (x86)\Latitude Geographics\Geocortex Essentials\Default\REST Elements\Manager)
2. Back up the web.config file.
3. Edit the web.config file
4. At the bottom of the appSettings element (just before the line that reads: </appSettings>), add the following line:

<add key="NumberOfSiteBackupFiles" value="3" />

5. Substitute the value for the number of backups you want to keep.
6. Save the file
7. Now when you make a change to your site, your site folder will contain backup files (*.bak) with date stamps.  An example file name is: Site.xml.2016-12-29_115523.bak