Working with Backup and Restore

Introduction

The backup feature provides the means to export the following information for backup purposes:

•Pulse One configuration. For example, provisioning configuration values, certs, registered PCS/PPS devices, and so on.

•Pulse One data. For example, search indices, distributed FS data, and so on.

A backup file can be used to restore a configuration to Pulse One.

Please note that:

•It is recommended that you only back up the Active node of a cluster. Backup and restore of a Passive appliance in a cluster is not recommended because the provisioning and associated appliance information cannot be retrieved from a Passive appliance. This is because the cluster needs to be reformed.

•The appliance should be offline before backing up. If the appliance is online, run the services stop command to switch the appliance to offline.

•The backup requires an “external” network interface to be configured.

•The following activities are not supported at this release:

•Incremental backup.

•Selective backup.

•Backup to NFS.

•Backup encryption.

•Backup of data stored outside the appliance.

•Importing is limited to the same system version of source and target. For example, a backup archive of v2.0.1901 can only be used to restore to another v2.0.1901 appliance.

•Do not run the system provision command before importing. If the system provision command is run before importing, all Pulse Connect Secure and Pulse Policy Secure appliances may become unregistered.