[j-nsp] Steel-Belted RADIUS backups

[Jed Laundry]

If it's Linux, are you using LVM as a storage layer?

LVM snapshots are your friend for making a consistent backup, regardless of
if you use a tar script or VM snapshot/image.

Thanks,
Jed.

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On 29/08/2013 11:12 pm, "Dale Shaw" <dale.shaw+j-nsp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone out there use SBR?
>
> We have the Global Enterprise Edition (GEE) version v6.1.7 running on
> Linux.
>
> I'm putting something in place to back up SBR itself; currently we
> just tar up /opt/JNPRsbr/radius (after stopping sbrd) but it's
> occurred to me that we have never tested a recovery using this method.
>
> JTAC are telling me there is no automated way to perform the XML
> export function normally performed in the GUI. The product docs don't
> make it clear whether taking a copy of everything in
> /opt/JNPRsbr/radius/ is enough, or whether the XML export is also
> required.
>
> Looking at what the supplied install/upgrade scripts do, it's just a
> recursive 'cp' with some unnecessary folders excluded.
>
> We also take backups of the VM guest that's running SBR but I'm not
> familiar enough with SBR's back-end databases to know whether that
> results in a recoverable data set; there'll be open files for sure
> (hence the stop;tar;start method described above).
>
> What do you do?  "use FreeRADIUS instead" is a valid but unwelcome
> response :-))
>
> Cheers,
> Dale
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