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Backup and Restore
Every day, after midnight, Network Discovery saves its data to a backup partition on the Peregrine appliance. In addition, you have the option of saving the data externally to an FTP site or to a tape. If necessary, you can restore the data from either the internal or the external backup or, if necessary, from another Peregrine appliance.
Topics in this chapter include:
About external backups on page 129
Choosing tape or an FTP site for your external backup on page 130
Configuring an external backup on page 131
Testing your external backup and restore on page 134
To run an internal or external backup immediately on page 135
Restoring your data on page 136
About external backups
Because the Peregrine appliance has room for only one backup, you may choose to back up your data to an FTP server or to a local USB tape drive. If you choose either of these methods (or both), you will be able to save a backup of your network data every day.
If you decide to store external backups, Network Discovery performs two separate functions. Every day, after midnight, Network Discovery creates an
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