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Configuring Backups for the Stratus One View Console

You can back up your Stratus One View Console configuration settings, enable periodic backups, start a backup, and restore your console's configuration settings from an existing backup file. One View creates backups in the form of .tgz files.

To start any of the backup procedures, click SETTINGS in the masthead and click Backup. The Backup page presents two panes: the Settings for Backup pane and the Restore from Backup pane.

Caution: Enabling One View backups configures the One View Console to save your settings to a backup file that is stored inside the One View VM. To ensure that the backup is available if the One View VM crashes or is lost, you must copy the backup file to another system on a regular basis.

To enable periodic backups or start a backup of your One View settings

  1. On the Settings for Backup pane, click the Enable Backup button.
    Two boxes drop down with fields for required values.

  2. Specify the following values in the drop-down boxes:

  3. Click Save to save the specified values or Reset to clear them.

  4. To start a backup now, click the Backup Now button.

To restore your console's settings from an existing backup file

  1. On the Restore from Backup pane, supply the full path name of the backup file in the required Location of Backups field.
  2. Click Restore to restore the configuration settings to those in the backup file, or click Reset to clear the path name.

Transferring Backup Files to and from the One View VM

To ensure that your One View backup is available if the One View VM crashes or is lost, you must copy the backup file from the guest operating system of the One View VM to another system on a regular basis by using a secure copy (SCP) utility. The CentOS guest operating system that runs in the One View VM already supports SCP, but you may need to download additional software to your remote management system to establish an SCP connection:

Linux-based Remote Systems

On many Linux and UNIX systems, standard SCP utilities are already installed and enabled by default. See scp(1) for information about how to use these utilities.

The following examples show how to log on to the One View VM and transfer a backup file to or from a remote Linux-based system; however, you could also initiate the SCP connection from the remote system and use different commands.

To transfer the backup file to a Linux- or UNIX-based system

Perform this procedure after creating a backup file to copy the file to another system for safekeeping (for example to any Physical Machine in any everRun system).

  1. Open the console window of the One View VM, or connect to the VM with an SSH utility.
  2. Log on as the admin user. The default password is admin, if you have not changed it yet.
  3. Locate the file that you need to transfer. For example, if you stored the file in the admin user's home directory, it may be /home/admin/backup.tgz.
  4. Consider renaming the backup file with a unique name or time stamp.

  5. Transfer the file to the remote system with an scp command in the format:

    $ scp backup_fileuser@remote_system:/target_directory

    For example, to transfer the file to the /home/admin directory on the remote system ocean.xyz.com:

    $ scp /home/admin/backup.tgz admin@ocean.xyz.com:/home/admin/
    backup.tgz            100% 4122     4.0KB/s     00:00

To transfer the backup file from a Linux- or UNIX-based system to the One View VM

Perform this procedure to transfer a backup file from a remote system to the One View VM for a restore operation.

  1. Open the console window of the One View VM, or connect to the VM with an SSH utility.
  2. Log on as the admin user. The default password is admin, if you have not changed it yet.

  3. Transfer the backup file to the One View VM with an scp command in the format:

    $ scp user@remote_system:/directory/backup_file /target_directory

    For example, to transfer the file from the remote system ocean.xyz.com to the /home/admin directory of the One View VM:

    $ scp admin@ocean.xyz.com:/home/admin/backup.tgz /home/admin
    backup.tgz            100% 4122     4.0KB/s     00:00
Windows-based Remote Systems

If you want to connect to the One View VM from a Windows management PC, you can download and use PuTTY, a suite of open-source SSH clients:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

In particular, PuTTY includes the pscp.exe command-line utility that allows you to securely transfer files from the One View VM to your management PC.

If you prefer a secure copy (SCP) client with a graphical user interface, you can also try the open-source WinSCP utility:

http://winscp.net/eng/index.php

The steps to transfer files depend on the utility that you choose. For more information, see the documentation for your SCP utility.

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