HP OneView - Manual (Page 171)

24 Backing up an appliance
This chapter describes how to use the UI, REST APIs, or a custom-written PowerShell script to save
your appliance resource configuration settings and management data to a backup file.
24.1 About backing up the appliance
HP OneView provides the ability to save your configuration settings and management data to a
backup file and enables you to use that backup to restore a corrupted appliance in the event of a
catastrophic failure.
The backup process involves creating a backup file and then downloading that file so that you can
store it to a safe and secure (off-appliance) location for future use.
For the procedure on creating a backup file from the UI, see “Back up an appliance” (page 173) .
For advice on creating and archiving a backup file, see “Best practices for backing up an
appliance” (page 172) .
IMPORTANT: In the unlikely event you need to restore the appliance ,HP recommends backing
up your appliance configuration on a regular basis, preferably daily and, and especially:
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After adding hardware
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After changing the appliance configuration
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Before and after updating the appliance firmware
The appliance stores one backup file at a time. Creating each subsequent backup file replaces the
current backup file. To prevent a backup file from being overwritten by a new backup file, download
and save the backup file to an off-appliance location before running the next backup process.
HP OneView provides a Backup administrator user role specifically for backing up the appliance
by permitting access to other resource views without permitting actions on those resources, or other
tasks. Only the Infrastructure administrator or the Backup administrator can create a backup file,
either through the UI or REST APIs.
What the backup process does not back up What the backup process backs up
• Non-data files: Static files that are installed as part of the execution
environment, and are not specific to the appliance or managed
environment configuration
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Log files (except the Audit log file)
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Appliance network configuration
• First-time setup configuration files
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Firmware bundles
• HP OneView database
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System files:
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Non-database data
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Audit log
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License files
Use a backup file to do the following:
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Restore the appliance from which the backup file was created.
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Restore the settings to a different appliance. For example, if an appliance fails and cannot
be repaired, you can use a backup file to restore the management configuration settings and
management data to a replacement appliance created from the same version of the virtual
machine image.
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