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Commands for managing configuration backup schedules

You can use the system configuration backup settings commands to manage configuration backup schedules.

These commands are available at the advanced privilege level.

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Change the settings for a configuration backup schedule:

  • Specify a remote URL (either HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP) where the configuration backup files will be uploaded in addition to the default locations in the cluster

  • Specify a user name to be used to log in to the remote URL

  • Set the number of backups to keep for each configuration backup schedule

system configuration backup settings modify

When you use HTTPS in the remote URL, use the -validate-certification option to enable or disable digital certificate validation. Certificate validation is disabled by default.

Note
The web server to which you are uploading the configuration backup file must have PUT operations enabled for HTTP and POST operations enabled for HTTPS. For more information, see your web server's documentation.
Set the password to be used to log in to the remote URLsystem configuration backup settings set-password
View the settings for the configuration backup schedulesystem configuration backup settings show
Note
You set the -instance parameter to view the user name and the number of backups to keep for each schedule.