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134 HP VMA SAN Gateway User’s Guide AM456-9026A
Saving the Configuration File to a Remote Server
You can create a copy of the active SAN Gateway configuration file and store it on a remote server
for recovery purposes. The system backs up the active configuration file automatically. However,
storing a copy of the configuration file on a remote server ensures that you can restore the system
configuration to its current settings in case of a disaster.
Perform the following steps on all SAN Gateway nodes in the redundant pair (Master and Second-
ary):
1. View the configuration files associated with the HP VMA SAN Gateway using the following
command. The configuration file in use is followed by
(active).
* gateway [cluster: master] (config) # show configuration files
initial (active)
initial.bak
initial.prev
2. Make a copy of the active configuration file using the configuration copy command. For
example:
* gateway [cluster: master] (config) # configuration copy initial new
Where new is the new name for the copied configuration file.
3. Save the copied configuration file to the remote server using the upload command. For
example:
* gateway [cluster: master] (config) # configuration upload filename scp://
username:password@hostname/path/filename
Where:
•
filename is the name of the copied configuration file
• hostname is the name of the remote server
• path is the absolute path to the location on the remote server
4. Check the remote server to make sure that the file was uploaded successfully.
5. Repeat steps 1-4 for the Secondary node, using its configuration file.
If you need to recover a configuration file from the remote server, you can use the
fetch command.
For example:
* gateway [cluster: master] (config) # configuration fetch scp://
username:password@hostname/path/filename