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Managing Physical Servers 28
Backing up and Restoring 4.6
Master Server
In the PVA 4.6 infrastructure, Master Server is a uniting element that ensures
successful communication between all Slave physical servers in the system and their
virtual environments. It also serves as a storage for management, security and other
sorts of data. Just as you make a backup of any physical server or virtual environment
in Parallels Virtual Automation, you can back up the Master Server and store this
backup for the case of emergency.
You can learn how to download the backup script from the Parallels KB article
http://kb.parallels.com/en/6830.
Backing Physical Server up
The PVA backup script pvabackup.vbs, after default download, is stored in the
C:\Program Files\Parallels\Parallels Virtual
Automation\Management Server\bin\location. To back up a Master Server with
the help of the PVA script, start it with the following parameters:
cscript.exe pvabackup.vbs BACKUP c:\mn_backups
Where "c:\mn_backups" is an automatically generated location for the target
backup. The backup name consists of the year, month, day, hour, minute, and second
when the backup was made, for example "20091027222544". To give a backup a
specific name, use the script with a concrete backup name:
cscript.exe pvabackup.vbs BACKUP c:\mn_backups b1
Where "b1" stands for the concrete backup name, and the storage location will be
c:\mn_backups b1.
Restoring Physical Server
To restore the Master Server, the script should look as follows:
cscript.exe pvabackup.vbs RESTORE c:\mn_backups 20091027222544
Where 20091027222544 is the name of the target backup you want to restore from.
Note: The Master Server will be restored with all the values overwritten from the
backup. The changes in the Master Server made after the date of this backup will be
lost after the server has been restored.