Hi there, You might consider using RAID mirroring if your servers support it :)
/ET On 8/30/13 12:42 PM, "Jed Laundry" <[email protected]> wrote: >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 _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
