Juniper NETWORK AND SECURITY MANAGER 2010.3, Administration Manual

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Archiving and Restoring
You can archive and restore log and configuration data in NSM using standard Unix
commands. Logs reside on the Device Server; all other configuration information, including
device configuration data, administrators, policies, audit logs, and job information, resides
on the GUI Server.
NOTE: You can also configure the management system to perform local database
backups on a regular basis during installation or upgrade. Refer to the Network and
Security Manager Installation Guide for more information.
Before archiving, you must stop the processes running on both servers, then use the
ls
-al
command to identify the actual paths of the GUI Server and Device Server data
directories:
• For all information on the GUI Server: /usr/netscreen/GuiSvr/var
• For all information on the Device Server: /usr/netscreen/DevSvr/var
These directories are links representing the paths that were entered at the time the servers
were installed.
After archiving, restart the processes on both servers. For details on stopping, starting,
and restarting processes on the management system, refer to the
Network and Security
Manager Installation Guide .
Archiving Logs and Configuration Data
To archive log and configuration data:
1.
Stop the Device Server and the GUI Server.
2.
Use the
ls -al
command to discover the actual paths of the GUI Server and Device
Server data directories. These are the directories you need to back up.
For example:
ls -al /usr/netscreen/GuiSvr/var
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Feb 25 16:04 /usr/netscreen/GuiSvr var ->
/var/netscreen/GuiSvr
The output in the example indicates that the actual location of the GUI Server data
is in
/var/netscreen/GuiSvr
. On your own system, verify where your data is stored
and which directories should be backed up. Follow the same procedure to determine
the location of your data on the Device Server.
3.
Run the appropriate backup command on your Solaris or Linux platform to backup
the GUI Server data. For example:
tar -cvf /netscreen_backup/db-date.tar /var/netscreen/GuiSvr
4.
Run the appropriate backup command on your Solaris or Linux platform to backup
the Device Server data.
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