Archiving Old Data

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Archiving Old Data

After making changes to the GigaFlow server’s configuration, it’s important to make a backup of the configuration.

Using Windows:

  1. Open a Windows command prompt as administrator.
  2. Assuming that the PostgreSQL path has been added to windows, you can run the pg_dump command below directly. If not, either add it to the path or change the active directory to C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\X.X\bin, where X.X is the PostgreSQL revision, e.g 9.5.
  3. Run:
    pg_dump --host 127.0.0.1 --username=myipfix –exclude table="macaddressvendors" --exclude-table="userevent* --exclude-table="systemhealt*" --exclude-table="savedreportdata" --exclude-table="netflow*" --exclude-table="arp*" --exclude-table="cam*" --exclude-table="searchip*" --exclude-table="all*" --exclude-table="events*" --exclude-table="all*" --exclude-table="profilingstats*" --exclude-table="summary*" --dbname=myipfix --clean --create --file=GigaFlowConfigBackup.sql
  4. You may be prompted for the database password, i.e. myipfix. This will create the file GigaFlowConfigBackup.sql in the active directory. Move this to wherever you archive configurations.

Restoring From a GigaFlow Configuration Backup