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Managing backup and restore operations

You can create backups of Unified Manager and use the restore feature to restore the backup to the same (local) system or a new (remote) system in case of a system failure or data loss.

There are three backup and restore methods depending on the operating system on which you have installed Unified Manager, and based on the number of clusters and nodes being managed:

Operating SystemSize of DeploymentRecommended Backup Method
VMware vSphereAnyVMware snapshot of the Unified Manager virtual appliance
Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS LinuxSmallUnified Manager MySQL database dump
 LargeLenovo Snapshot of Unified Manager database
Microsoft WindowsAnyUnified Manager MySQL database dump

These different methods are described in the sections that follow.

  • Virtual appliance backup and restore process
    The backup and restore model for Unified Manager when installed on a virtual appliance is to capture and restore an image of the full virtual application.
  • Backup and restore using a MySQL database dump
    A MySQL database dump backup is a copy of the Unified Manager database and configuration files that you can use in case of a system failure or data loss. You can schedule a backup to be written to a local destination or to a remote destination. It is highly recommended that you define a remote location that is external to the Unified Manager host system.
  • Backup and restore using Lenovo Snapshots
    A Lenovo Snapshot backup creates a point-in-time image of the Unified Manager database and configuration files that you can use to restore in case of a system failure or data loss. You schedule a Snapshot backup to be written to a volume on one of your ONTAP clusters periodically so that you always have a current copy.
  • Migrating a Unified Manager virtual appliance to a Linux system
    You can restore a Unified Manager MySQL database dump backup from a virtual appliance to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS Linux system if you want to change the host operating system on which Unified Manager is running.