Running Scheduled or Immediate SCP Backups

You can schedule an SCP backup or run an SCP backup immediately.

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.

Procedure

  1. In the appliance GUI, go to Administration > Backup/Restore Configuration.
  2. Select the SCP radio button.
  3. (Optional) Select to Optimize the backups so only incremental backups are run instead of a full backup each time.
  4. (Optional) When the Bypass disk space checking check box is not selected (Default), the system will check for available backup space prior to backing up your log files.
    Note: Because the LogLogic application is very conservative, and because the total space required for backing up logs is difficult to accurately predict, the system may state that not enough storage space is available for backing up your log files when in fact you know that sufficient space is available. The default condition for this checkbox is unchecked, meaning the appliance will calculate (and possibly overestimate) the amount of backup space required. 



    Selecting the Bypass disk space checking check box on the Backup Configuration pane prevents the appliance from possibly overestimating the amount of storage space necessary for a full backup of your log data.

  5. Enter the SCP user name for User.
  6. Enter the SCP server IP address for Server.
  7. Set the SCP backup to automatically run on a schedule or to run immediately:
    • Select the recurring Backup Schedule days and time.

      Select the day(s) of the week on which you want automatic backups to occur, or select Everyday.

      Set the time for the automatic backups to begin on the selected days.

    • Select Start Backup Immediately.
  8. Click Update to save the SCP backup configuration.

    The backup process creates an additional folder using the appliance IP address to avoid an accidental overwrite by another appliance.

    The interface displays, “Backup configuration update completed.” Appliance data is backed up daily at the beginning of the scheduled hour.

  9. To optionally verify the creation of a backup directory on the SCP server for the LogLogic appliance:
    1. Log in to the SCP server.
    2. In the host directory, open the backup directory (ll_bkup_ip-address) for the selected appliance.

Result

All backup sessions for that appliance are contained in that backup directory. For example: 

$ ls -l
total 24
drwxr-xr-x    7 root root 4096 Mar 30 11:10 .
drwxr-xr-x    3 root root 4096 Mar 27 17:11 ..
drwxr-xr-x   14 root root 4096 Mar 27 19:12 ll_bkup_session_1214586678_1238181143
drwxr-xr-x   14 root root 4096 Mar 27 21:27 ll_bkup_session_1238188349_1238189277
drwxr-xr-x   14 root root 4096 Mar 28 11:10 ll_bkup_session_1236038400_1238238608
drwxr-xr-x   14 root root 4096 Mar 29 11:09 ll_bkup_session_1238324400_1238324960
drwxr-xr-x   14 root root 4096 Mar 30 11:10 ll_bkup_session_1238410800_1238411403