Restore Appliance

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Contents 1 Overview 2 Prerequisites 3 Symptoms 4 Restore Procedure 4.1 Copy backup files to PINsafe server 4.2 Perform the Restore 4.3 Reboot 4.4 Verify data and synchronisation 5 Troubleshooting

Overview

This document covers how to restore data and configuration to an appliance.

To perform a bare metal recovery of an appliance see Recovery Disk for Appliances How to Guide

Prerequisites

PINsafe appliance with CMI

PINsafe data backup

Note The data restore must match the data restore appliance type, e.g. primary master to primary master, VM to VM, hardware to hardware.

Symptoms

Restore required

Restore Procedure

On the server to be restored

If a bare metal recovery is required, follow the recovery procedure from

Copy backup files to PINsafe server

Copy the backup files to the PINsafe server folder /backups

See Copying appliance files How to Guide, it may be necessary to perform some network configuration if files are to be restored from a network backup server.

Perform the Restore

WARNING: This process will overwrite existing data on the PINsafe server

Login as admin either on the console or SSH and select:

 "Backup & Restore"

select backup

   Backup created: Mon Dec 20 16:09:18 GMT 2010
 
    By continuing, this process will overwrite the current PINsafe DB, and
    possibly the configuration and appliance settings (including network and
    password information). Ensure there is a current backup of the
    appliance and PINsafe before continuing.
   
    Reason: installation backup
   
 1. PINsafe DB only, NO configuration files
 2. Full restore of appliance, and PINsafe
 0. Backup Menu

 Select:

Select the level of backup required and confirm.

    Are you sure? (Yes/No): Yes

The following will be displayed depending on the backup level

       1. Restoring files to /etc
       2. Restoring Keystores and SSH
       3. Restoring MySQL
       4. Restoring pinsafe MySQL DB
       5. Restoring Tomcat
 Stopping High-Availability services:                      [  OK  ]
       6. Restoring Webmin
       7. Restoring MON
       8. Restoring Heartbeat
       9. Restoring DRBD
       10. Restoring scripts

 The restore process has now completed.
 Please reboot the appliance for all changes to take effect.
 The appliance will respond on 192.168.0.36 after a reboot.

 Press Return to Continue.

Reboot

When performing a full restore reboot the PINsafe server.

Verify data and synchronisation

Verify that the PINsafe server has the correct configuration and that the MySQL Db is in synchronisation.

Troubleshooting