Backup and Restore in an HA Pair

Backing up an HA pair is similar to backing up a single appliance. Configure the backup to use the public IP address.

Restoring in an HA pair

To restore a backup to both appliances in a high availability (HA) pair, you must use a different restore procedure:

Procedure

  1. From the CLI, use the set failover disable command on the Standby appliance in the HA pair to remove it from the pair.
  2. Using HA pair’s virtual IP, restore from the backup as described in Restoring an Appliance.
  3. Use the set failover configure command on Standby appliance to configure the Standby appliance to rejoin the HA pair.
  4. When prompted This appliance shall be the destination of the initial data migration, enter Y.

Result

After the failover is configured and the migration completes, the HA pair is available with the restored data on both appliances.