Difference between revisions of "Backup and Restore a GigaFlow Configuration"
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After making changes to the GigaFlow server’s configuration, it’s important to make a backup of the configuration. | After making changes to the GigaFlow server’s configuration, it’s important to make a backup of the configuration. | ||
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# You may be prompted for the database password, i.e. <strong>myipfix</strong>. This will create the file GigaFlowConfigBackup.sql in the active directory. Move this to wherever you archive configurations. | # You may be prompted for the database password, i.e. <strong>myipfix</strong>. This will create the file GigaFlowConfigBackup.sql in the active directory. Move this to wherever you archive configurations. | ||
| + | == Restoring From a GigaFlow Configuration Backup == | ||
| − | + | <strong>Warning: the following process will drop the existing database on the server.</strong> | |
| − | + | When restoring, stop the flowsec service, upload flowsecdump.sql file to the new machine and execute the following (supply the 'myipfix' password when prompted) | |
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Revision as of 13:43, 27 March 2019
Creating a GigaFlow Configuration Backup
After making changes to the GigaFlow server’s configuration, it’s important to make a backup of the configuration.
Using Windows:
- Open a Windows command prompt as administrator.
- 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. - 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 - 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
Warning: the following process will drop the existing database on the server.
When restoring, stop the flowsec service, upload flowsecdump.sql file to the new machine and execute the following (supply the 'myipfix' password when prompted)
psql --host 127.0.0.1 --username=myipfix < ./flowsecdump.sql
psql --host 127.0.0.1 --username=myipfix -c "delete from serverparams where key in('serverid','installtime','license')"
Now restart flowsec.
