If it's Linux, are you using LVM as a storage layer? LVM snapshots are your friend for making a consistent backup, regardless of if you use a tar script or VM snapshot/image.
Thanks, Jed. Sent from a mobile device. On 29/08/2013 11:12 pm, "Dale Shaw" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone out there use SBR? > > We have the Global Enterprise Edition (GEE) version v6.1.7 running on > Linux. > > I'm putting something in place to back up SBR itself; currently we > just tar up /opt/JNPRsbr/radius (after stopping sbrd) but it's > occurred to me that we have never tested a recovery using this method. > > JTAC are telling me there is no automated way to perform the XML > export function normally performed in the GUI. The product docs don't > make it clear whether taking a copy of everything in > /opt/JNPRsbr/radius/ is enough, or whether the XML export is also > required. > > Looking at what the supplied install/upgrade scripts do, it's just a > recursive 'cp' with some unnecessary folders excluded. > > We also take backups of the VM guest that's running SBR but I'm not > familiar enough with SBR's back-end databases to know whether that > results in a recoverable data set; there'll be open files for sure > (hence the stop;tar;start method described above). > > What do you do? "use FreeRADIUS instead" is a valid but unwelcome > response :-)) > > Cheers, > Dale > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
