How do I schedule auxiliary database backups?

Purpose

Perform this procedure to setup regular, scheduled backups of the NSP auxiliary database.

A backup operation can be scheduled to occur while a copy cluster operation is in process. In this case, the backup operation would wait until after the copy cluster operation is complete; the Auxiliary Database Clusters dashlet would display “Backing up...” to indicate that the backup is waiting to start.

An auxiliary database backup cannot be scheduled to occur while an auxiliary database switchover is in progress.

Note: If auxiliary database backups were previously scheduled in NFM-P, those scheduled backups will need to be recreated using this procedure.

Steps
 
1 

Open System Health.

2 

In the Auxiliary Database Clusters dashlet, click png22.pngMore, Configure Backups.

3 

In the Configure Auxiliary Database Backups form, configure the backup scheduling and storage parameters.

The Backup Location is created if it does not exist already.

Note: If the following conditions are not met an error will occur:

  1. The samauxdb user must have Read/Write permissions for the parent directory of the Backup Location on all auxiliary database stations in the cluster.

  2. If the Backup Location already exists, the samauxdb user must have Read/Write permissions for the Backup Location on all auxiliary database stations in the cluster.

4 

If you want to perform a database backup immediately, enable the Backup on Save option.

End of steps