ITA backup and restore

Scheduling regular backup jobs When you have created the backup configuration, you can set up the system to automatically backup regularly according to your backup strategy. The regular backup files will consume some disk space and increase in size over time, so it is highly recommended to use a remote location. See how to clean up old backups here. Open the Webmin web interface by selecting Administration>Webmin in the ITA web client. Alternatively, type the address of your ITA server in a Web browser followed by :10000,  <https://>:10000  .  Log on to Webmin using the user credentials created during installation of IT Advisor. In the left menu, select System>Scheduled Cron Jobs. To enable the default backup schedule: Select one of the 3 backup options as needed: Daily Weekly Monthly Click Enable Selected Jobs to enable the job with the default settings. Note that per default the daily backup option is enabled. 105468181_1074x250_360038096534.png To customize the backup schedule: Click one of the 3 backup IT Advisor server options (click in the "Command" column) as needed: Daily Weekly Monthly Edit the time for the system to automatically execute the backup job as needed. By default daily backup runs at 2:30 AM. Select Active: Yes and save to enable the selected backup job. The system will automatically run the job regularly with the specified interval. 105468191_702x250_360038096534.png

Restoring IT Optimize backup The backup of the IT Advisor server is a database backup. It does not include server and OS configuration settings, such as configuration of server time, locale, remote backup settings, or cluster setup. To ensure backup of any customized server configuration files, verify that your enterprise backup system backs up these files. Otherwise, after restoring a backup, you must configure server and OS settings again. Running a backup The Data Center: IT Optimize server is automatically backed up in the IT Advisor backup. Restoring IT Optimize and Intel® Data Center Manager Server ITO and DCM run autonomously, but they are linked to each other so if you have created discoveries using IPMI, you need to restore both products. Note A restore will wipe all current data. Data Center: IT Optimize servers must be running the same OS type (i.e. a backup of an Data Center: IT Optimize server running on Microsoft Windows can only be restored to another Data Center: IT Optimize server running Windows). The ITO database backup must be from the same ITO release or older compared to the server on which it is being restored. The DCM database version must match the DCM to which it is being restored, meaning DCM 4.0.0 (included with ITO 7.5.2) can only be restored to another DCM 4.0.0 database. For Data Center: IT Optimize, the easiest method to restore or move the installation: Create the backup on the current server (or get your most recent backup). On the target server, remove any existing ITO and DCM installations. The restore procedure is the same on Windows and Linux. Open a Windows command prompt, or a Linux command terminal. Move to the directory/folder which contains the Data Center: IT Optimize installer. Run the Data Center: IT Optimize installer, adding the ITO backup file as a command line argument. Notice the --db_restore_zip  command line argument which starts with a pair of "-" characters. ./StruxureWareItOptimize-setup.windows.x64.exe  --db_restore_zip c:\DatabaseBackup.zip This command will install IT Optimize, and restore the ITO backup file to the database so all polling data, assets, and discoveries will be restored. The installation will also install the Intel DCM software. It will be initialized. If you haven't been using IPMI based discoveries, the procedure ends here. If IPMI discoveries are being used, you also need to restore the DCM database. Here's how: The DatabaseBackup.zip file created during the ITO backup should also contain the Intel DCM database backup.  1. Place the DatabaseBackup.zip file on the root of the C:\ drive and extract the contents of the zip file, so you'll have a DatabaseBackup folder or the contents are extracted onto the C:\ drive. The files listed in the image are contained in the DatabaseBackup.zip file. The DCM restore procedure requires access to the "dcmDatabase" file. The other files are related to IT Optimize backups. 2. On the new ITO server, stop the Intel® Data Center Manager Server service using the Windows services control panel. Files contained in the DatabaseBackup.zip file (step 1)   109447317_360038620093.jpg Windows services control panel (step 2) 109447318_360038620093.jpg 3.Open a Windows command prompt and navigate to: C:\Program Files\Intel\DataCenterManager\external\pgsql\bin 4.Run this command to remove the existing DCM database: dropdb –p 6443 –U dcmdba dcm 5.Run this command to create a new clean DCM database: createdb –p 6443 –U dcmdba dcm  6.Run this command to populate the newly created DCM database: pg_restore –p 6443 –U dcmdba –d dcm <path>dcmDatabase Example: If you have placed the dcmDatabase file in C:\DatabaseBackup, run: pg_restore –p 6443 –U dcmdba –d dcm C:\DatabaseBackup\dcmDatabase  7.   Restart the Intel® Data Center Manager Server service.

On-premise only. For ITA hosted, backups are handled by Schneider Electric. Backing up the IT Advisor server and restoring the backup is used, for example, when upgrading from certain versions of ITA to the latest version. Backups can only be restored to a IT Advisor server of the same or newer product release. The backup of the IT Advisor server is a database backup. It does not include server and OS configuration settings, such as configuration of server time, locale, remote backup settings. To backup any customized server configuration files, verify that your enterprise backup system backs up these files. Otherwise, after restoring a backup, you must configure server and OS settings again. Make sure you have a copy of all installed license keys and network settings prior to restore. Running a backup By default, the system backs up to a local backup directory on the same disk. Open the web client and login with a user with the System Configuration permission. Go to Administration > Backup and Restore. Click Schedule Backup to start a backup immediately. This will save a backup in the default location /data/backup * or see here for information about scheduling regular backup jobs. While the backup is being performed a log is shown that shows the status of the backup job. The log can be minimized without interrupting the backup process. Recommendation: It is highly recommended that you save backups to a remote location. Configuring a remote backup You can configure a remote backup location on the Administration > Backup and Restore page. Prerequisite: To enable saving the backup on your network, mount the folder in which to save the backup. Click Backup Settings. Specify the Backup directory in the text field. Select Fail if not mounted remotely if you want the Backup and Restore page to show an error message if the remotely mounted directory is not mounted. This is especially useful if it is important that the backups are stored away from the server. Restoring a backup Set up a new server with a clean installation of IT Advisor. Log in to the web client for the new server on which you want to restore the backup. The user should have the System Configuration permission. Go to Administration > Backup and Restore. Select an uploaded backup file and click Restore selected backup. If the backup you want to restore is not in the list, upload the file as described below. Note: A restore will wipe all current data. If you have upgraded to 7.4.X or above, note that when restoring a backup the ETL external system integration jobs are not started automatically. You have to enable ETL again after the restore: After the restore start the client, open the export configuration, and select the new export job (without psql in the name).  Drop all tables in the export database. Resume the job in Webmin. Uploading a backup Open Webmin. Log in to the web client. Go to Administration > Backup and Restore. Click the Upload to backup. In Files to upload, browse to the location of your saved backup. Make sure the file format is: <name><yyyy-mm-dd><hh.mm>.tar.gz Testing backup You should verify that the backup runs as expected. You can purchase an enterprise backup agent for PostgreSQL, or you can verify the backup in Webmin. The backup file size provides a good indication, and if you have scheduled daily backups, you can check that this is included in the file name. In the web client, go to Administration > Backup and Restore. In the list of backup files, verify that the size of the backup seems reasonable, and that the file name includes the prefix Daily_ if you scheduled to run the backup every day. Cleaning up old backups You can configure cleanup frequency of old backups in the web client Administration > Backup and Restore > Backup Settings. Specify whether to clean up and how often: Disable: Never clean up Days to keep backups: Delete files older than the specified amount of days Click Save Settings.