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Backing Up / Restoring
Backup / Restore Elements Overview
The backup / restore and deploy capabilities of this application let you conveniently manage both
device configurations and firmware deployments. Before you can use these capabilities, however,
you must configure an FTP or TFTP server to retrieve or deploy the files. Chapter 35, File Servers
describes this setup.
The following are this application’s capabilities for backing up and restoring network element
configuration files:
• Retrieve and/or restore a configuration file from/to a specific network element.
• Schedule the backup or restoration of a configuration file or files on any single network
element.
• Maintain a history of software installed/deployed on the network element by the element
management system.
• Use this application’s group operations capabilities for configuration file backups / restores.
• Stage and import the software images/patches, then deploy, or redeploy them to specific
network elements.
• Provide a history of all the configuration file backups and restorations performed on any given
network element.
• Track the software images and patches deployed to any given network element.
• Schedule the deployment of a software image or patch to any single network element.
This application employs various components, described in the following sections, to do the above.
Managing Backup / Restore by IP Address or Hostname
By default this application manages hosts (and their related backup files) by the IP Address. You
can see if it uses IP addresses or hostnames in the following section of
\owareapps\
netrestore\lib\nr.properties
:
#============================================
# NetConfig File Server Prefix property
# Valid Options are as follows:
# IP_ADDRESS
# HOSTNAME
#============================================