Backup PINsafe on a Active/Active appliance
From Swivel Knowledgebase
Overview
Swivel appliances automatically make a backup at 04.00. To manually make a backup of Swivel Active/Active appliances follow the below instructions. See also Backup PINsafe How to Guide, the Automated FTP Backups and Automated SCP Backups.
See also Appliance Backup Time Configuration and Retrieving PINsafe backup files using Webmin.
Prerequisites
PINsafe Active/Active appliance with CMI
Symptoms
Backup required
Solution
On the Active Master
Login as admin either on the console or SSH and select:
"Backup & Restore" "Backup PINsafe, and PINsafe configuration files"
The system will prompt for a backup reason. Enter a reason, or press enter to ignore
Expected results:
Master
############################################################
Backup Started : Sun Nov 1 15:20:06 GMT 2009
############################################################
Backing up Webapps & MySQL DB... Copying MySQL: "pinsafe" DB Copying Tomcat webapps and log files
############################################################
Backup Finished : Sun Nov 1 15:20:14 GMT 2009
############################################################
Press Return to continue
Trouble Shooting
Ensure that the "Copying MySQL: "pinsafe" DB" line correctly reflects the name of the MySQL DB in use. This may be checked by looking on the DB page within PINsafe
