Specifications

AMF Introduction and Configuration
142 New and Enhanced Features in AlliedWare Plus 5.4.4 Major and Minor Versions
Backing up to Remote Servers
System backup data can be held on up to two remote backup servers rather than on the
master node’s external media. These servers are used for both backup and recovery.
Each AMF master supports a maximum of two remote file servers. The remote backup file
servers are mounted on the Master’s file system using SSH and appear as folders.
Configuring a
backup to a
remote server
First configure the servers. After you have configured the servers you can check the
backup media, location, log details and server status using the show atmf backup
command. You can also manually synchronize the contents of an active server and other
configured servers, if required. The following steps show how to set up two backup
servers:
1. Use the command “atmf backup server” on page 170 for backup server 1
This command configures a remote file server(s) as the destination for AMF backups.
Configuration of a remote server will switch the backup to remote server functionality
and disable any further backup to external media. Use the no variant of this
command to remove the destination servers and revert to backup from external
media.
Note that if no servers are configured, the backup will go to external media. If no
servers are configured and no external media exists, no backup will occur.
2. Repeat step (1) for backup server 2
You should now have two file servers configured to backup your network.
3. Use the “atmf backup now” on page 168 to force a manual backup of your network.
4. Use the command “show atmf backup” on page 222.
If you forced a manual backup, you will probably want to display the location and
state of each configured file server. The display from this command also shows
diagnostic results that test connectivity to each server by using the optional
server-status parameter.
Below is example output from the show atmf backup command showing the
configuration of two remote backup file servers.
Note
This step is optional. Alternatively you could wait until the next scheduled back
occurs.