Deployment Guide
Probably the easiest way to schedule backups is to use cron. For online backups, use crontab of “db7sign”
user. For offline backups, use crontab of the root user.
Example backup schedule
Use “crontab -e” to edit the crontab of the “db7sign”user.
# Full online backup every Sunday at 3 am
0 3 * * 0 /opt/7signal/dbms/scripts/7BUtool.sh -o -s my-carat-server -f
my-carat-server@example.com -t admin@example.com -b remote-backup.example.com -u
backup -d /home/backup/my-carat-server /home/db7sign/dir1 /home/db7sign/dir2 >>
/var/log/BU.log 2>&1
# Incremental online delta backup every Monday to Saturday at 3 am
0 3 * * 1-6 /opt/7signal/dbms/scripts/7BUtool.sh -i -s my-carat-server -f
my-carat-server@example.com -t admin@example.com -b remote-backup.example.com -u
backup -d /home/backup/my-carat-server /home/db7sign/dir1 /home/db7sign/dir2 >>
/var/log/BU.log 2>&1
14.3.5Deleting old backups on the remote storage server
It can be necessary to delete old backups periodically on a remote storage server. The utility script
cleanupOldBackups.sh can be found in directory /<DBMS install directory>
/scripts.
Copy the script to the remote storage server. The should be executed as the backup user. In this example,
the username is “backup”.
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