Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide v6.1.0 (53-10000610-02, June 2008)

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Data Storage and Backup
In this chapter
•Data persistence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
•Backups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Data persistence
Fabric Manager stores user settings when you exit, not while you run the software. When the client
attempts to log in to the server, the server authenticates the client login. After the server
authenticates the client, Fabric Manager launches and polls switches.
Fabric Manager stores the following user settings locally (on the client machine):
• Fabric Manager user name
• Dimensions of the Fabric Manager window
The following user settings are saved on the database in the server:
• User interface settings (view customizations, topology locations, etc.)
• Switch user names and passwords
Other settings are global to all clients running on the same Fabric Manager server.
Backups
To perform complete database backups using a graphical user interface, use the Server
Management Console. The Server Management Console always performs a full backup.
To perform either full or incremental database backups, you can use the dbbackup utility. The
dbbackup utility is called from a script to back up the Fabric Manager database. The full database
backup includes both the transaction log file and the database file. The incremental backup is
used to back up only the transaction log file. To automate either a full or incremental backup, use
the CLI steps described in this section.
NOTE
The -t option is used to perform an incremental backup only.
Performing backups
Enter the following command in the CLI (the entire command is on a single line):
dbbackup -c "uid=dba;pwd=sql;eng=fabman;CommLinks=tcpip{DOBROADCAST=DIRECT;
HOST=localhost;ServerPort=2638}" -y -r -n -t <destdir>