appliance provides you a backup/restore engine.
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The above shows you the backup form. To archive a backup you must choose from the Type drop-down menu which data to save:
Then you are required to fill the description field. The backup will be shown with its creation date.
After you're ready, just press the create button:
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The process starts immediately and a progress number is shown as follows:
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The operation can last a while, depending by the backup type you chose and the amount of data records.
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After the backup is finished you can see it listed in the Available backups.
Private Key management has its own rules due to high sensitivity of the information it deals with. As a matter of fact whoever has direct access to the private key must not have direct access to its content unless necessary, because he can else seriously compromise integrity. There are two risks:
That's why keypair generation is automatic and there's no direct access to such sensitive informations.
For the same reasons even Full backup does not include private key, which needs to be managed alone. Actually Private Key backup is available only via SSH as user ephone.
After you logged into , command line script can be used to export keypair:
[ephone@xxx ]$ sudo /data/bin/private_key_backup.sh <keypair description> |
You will be prompted to input a password to protect the keypair, which is going to be exported in PKCS12 format and it will be found in the following archive: /home/ephone/<keypair description>.tar
<keypair description> is the "description field" shown in web console when accessing key pair view |
If you want to restore from a backup, select it from the backups list.
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From the Show ApplianceBackup you can decide if Delete or Restore the archive. Let's go for restoring it.
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After you click on the Restore button you get the summary shown in . If you choose the Backup before then you let the server perform an Emergency backup before restoring. This new backup will be listed in the backups list as Emergency.
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Click on the Restore button and confirm in the pop up window: the Management console will inform you the services are going to be restarted and you'll be automatically log out. After you log in again, you find the restored backup is disappeared from the backups list.
For the same reasons explained above this feature is available only via SSH as user ephone.
After you logged into , command line script can be used to import keypair:
[ephone@xxx ]$ sudo /data/bin/private_key_restore.sh <pathfile> |
You will be prompted to input a password to decrypt the keypair, imported in PKCS12 format and included in the TAR archive. At the end of the import you will be prompted to restart WebConsole through the command:
pcs resource restart WebConsole |
If you need to restore your Private Key on a different server, which is a most possible scenario, then you have first to copy your backuped private key on it. You can use scp command and user ephone. |
If otherwise you choose to press the Delete button and thus erase the archive, the you get a confirmation pop-up windows and then the list of available backups is show with a warning message as shown below:
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