Backup Recommendations

The following are additional recommendations to get the best protection for appliance data:

• Run daily backups, scheduled for a time when network bandwidth and appliance CPU usage are both at their lowest.
• When configuring backup for a disaster recovery installation, backing up to a remote location, use SCP due to its better security.
  Warning: The rsync version on the backup server must be higher or equal to the version running on the appliance. Otherwise the backup process will fail. To check the rsync version run the command: rsync --version.
• Move a copy of the backup snapshot daily to another, more reliable location such as magnetic tape. For optimal disaster recovery protection, send the copy offsite to a secure data center.
• The following are recommended storage platforms for use with LogLogic backup:

  Recommended Storage Platforms

  NAS	SCP/SSH
  CentOS release 6.6	OpenSSH_5.3p1, OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips

  Note: Do not perform backup or restore operations when data migration is in progress.