Creating and restoring backups

You can do a full backup or a partial backup, and you can restore any backup to the system. (This procedure assumes the system is fully operational. See Restoring the system for disaster recovery.)

Avaya recommends that you perform a full backup after the initial installation.

CAUTION:
The transfer of large backup images may slow your network performance.

Using the Web Administration interface

Backups are done using the main menu's Backup/Restore options.

To do a full backup:

1. Choose Backup from the main menu, and choose Full Backup.
2. Fill in the fields and click Submit.

To do a partial backup:

1. Choose Backup from the main menu, and choose Partial Backup.
2. Fill in the fields and click Submit.

To restore a backup:

1. Choose Restore from the main menu.
2. Choose Restore from the screen that the browser displays.
3. Fill in the fields and click Submit.

Using the command-line interface

• To do a full or partial backup, use the backup command.
• To restore a backup, use the restback command.

Note:
You can use the schedback command to create a cron job to schedule a backup, and you can use the delbackup command to remove backups from the cron table. Running delbackup removes the Backup entry permanently from cron.

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