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

Prerequisites

If currently enabled in your HA environment, disable Advanced Features on the active appliance by running the following command from the CLI: 
> system logu disable

Disabling Advanced Features automatically disables the Monthly Index, Advanced Aggregation, and Monitoring Console features.

Note: In HA environment, you can disable the Advanced Features only from the active appliance and only from the CLI. Disabling on the active appliance also disables all these features on the standby appliance.

Procedure

  1. From the CLI, run the following command on the standby appliance to remove it from the HA pair: 
    > set failover disable
  2. Using the virtual IP of the HA pair, restore from the backup as described in Restoring an Appliance.
    After clicking Restore, if the following message is displayed, then wait for a few minutes: 
    This site can't be reached
  3. Run the following command on standby appliance to configure the standby appliance to rejoin the HA pair: 
    > set failover configure
  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.

What to do next

If you had disabled them before starting the procedure, reenable Advanced Features by running the following command on the active appliance: 
> system logu enable
Note: In HA environment, you can enable the Advanced Features only from the CLI on the active appliance. Enabling on the active appliance also enables the feature on the standby appliance.

Enabling the Advanced Features does not automatically enable the Monthly Index, Advanced Aggregation, and Monitoring Console features. You must separately enable these features as required. See the system command.