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Chapter 17 Configuring System Operations

Backing Up Primary and Secondary Instances

Step 2 Click Submit to schedule the backup.

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Backing Up Primary and Secondary Instances

ACS provides you the option to back up the primary and secondary instances at any time apart from the regular scheduled backups. For a primary instance, you can back up the following:

•ACS configuration data only

•ACS configuration data and ADE-OS configuration data

Note For secondary instances, ACS only backs up the ADE-OS configuration data.

To run an immediate backup:

Step 1 Choose System Administration > Operations > Distributed System Management.

The Distributed System Management page appears.

Step 2 From the Primary Instance table or the Secondary Instances table, select the instance that you want to back up.

You can select only one primary instance, but many secondary instances for a backup.

Step 3 Click Backup.

The Distributed System Management - Backup page appears with the fields described in Table 17-3.

Table 17-3 Distributed System Management - Backup Page

Option

Backup Data

Description

Filename created by backup includes a time stamp and file type information appended to the prefix entered

Filename Prefix

Repository

Enter a filename prefix to which ACS appends the backup time stamp. For example, if you enter ACSBackup as the filename prefix and backup is run on June 05, 2009 at 20:37 hours, then ACS creates the backup file ACSBackup-090506-2037.tar.gpg.

Note In ACS web interface, you cannot configure utf-8 characters for a backup filename and a repository name.

Click Select to open the Software Update and Backup Repositories dialog box, from which you can select the appropriate repository in which to store the backup file.

Backup Options (only applicable for primary instances)

ACS Configuration Backup	Click this option if you want to back up only the ACS configuration data.
ACS Configuration and ADE-OS Backup	Click this option if you want to back up both the ACS configuration data
	and the ADE-OS configuration data.
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