Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide (53-10000196-01-HP, November 2006)

Fabric Manager Administrator’s Guide 23-1

Publication Number: 53-1000196-01-HP

Chapter

Storing Data and Performing Backups

This chapter contains the following sections:

• “Data Persistence” on page 23-1

• “Performing Backups” on page 23-1

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.

Performing Backups

To perform database backups using a graphical user interface, use the Server Management Console. The

Server Management Console always performs a full backup. To automate either a full or incremental

backup, use the CLI steps described in this section.

To perform database backups, you can use the dbbackup utility. The dbbackup utility is called from a

script to back up the Fabric Manager database. You can perform either a Full Backup or an Incremental

Backup. 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.