Contents

Introduction

Problem

Solution

Introduction

This document describes how to take a backup from Prime Infrastructure (PI) Gen 1 Appliance externally with the use of a USB port of Appliance and vice-versa.

Problem

In many customer scenarios, the use of File Trasfer Protocol/ Trivial File Transfer Protocol (FTP/TFTP) is restricted in their data centre and hence it is a big challenge for the customer to move the backup from PI to an external point with the help of any FTP/TFTP server. Since Appliance is a Linux based Server, it is very difficult to move backup from any other way to the external point because there could be a possibility for it to corrupt the backup at the time of improper transfer.

Solution

In order to overcome this situation, find an alternate solution to move the backup from Prime Server to USB Stick with the use of USB port of appliance. Another advantage is that it is much faster and helps reduce the time that it takes to copy by FTP/TFTP/SFTP and it will be very helpful to copy large data as well.

Backup from PI Gen1 Appliance to USB

Step 1. Insert a USB stick.

Step 2. Create a new partition supported ext4 file system.

-bash-4.1# fdisk -l   n e l t 8e w

-bash-4.1# partprobe

-bash-4.1# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1

-bash-4.1# mkdir /media/usb-drive/

-bash-4.1# mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 /media/usb-drive/

-bash-4.1# umount /media/usb-drive

Step 3. Copy the backup from defaultRepo to the newly mounted file system.

Step 4. Validate the md5 of the file in both the places.

Backup from USB to PI Gen1 Appliance

Step 1. Login into the PI.

pi/admin#

Step 2. Navigate to shell.

pi/admin# shell

Enter shell access password :

Starting bash shell ...

ade #

ade #

ade # sudo su -

-bash-4.1#

Step 3. View all Disk Partitions in PI.

-bash-4.1# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 897.0 GB, 896998047744 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 109053 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x000591be

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/sda1   *           1          64      512000   83  Linux

Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.

/dev/sda2              64          77      102400   83  Linux

Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.

/dev/sda3              77      109054   875359232   8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/mapper/smosvg-rootvol: 4194 MB, 4194304000 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 509 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/smosvg-swapvol: 16.8 GB, 16777216000 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2039 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/smosvg-tmpvol: 2113 MB, 2113929216 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 257 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/smosvg-usrvol: 7348 MB, 7348420608 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 893 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/smosvg-varvol: 4194 MB, 4194304000 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 509 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/smosvg-optvol: 716.3 GB, 716252905472 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 87079 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/smosvg-home: 134 MB, 134217728 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 16 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/smosvg-recvol: 134 MB, 134217728 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 16 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/smosvg-altrootvol: 134 MB, 134217728 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 16 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/smosvg-localdiskvol: 134.6 GB, 134553272320 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 16358 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/smosvg-storeddatavol: 10.5 GB, 10502537216 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1276 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/sdb: 62.1 GB, 62075699200 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7546 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0xa5fe72c5

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/sdb1               1        7546    60613213+  8e  Linux LVM

Step 4. Create a new directory and mount it.

-bash-4.1# mkdir /media/usb-drive/

-bash-4.1# mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 /media/usb-drive/

-bash-4.1# ls -lv

total 60

-rw-------. 1 root root  8494 Aug 24  2018 anaconda-ks.cfg

drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root  4096 Aug 24  2018 bin

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 18977 Aug 24  2018 install.log

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  5646 Aug 24  2018 install.log.syslog

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root     5 Aug 24  2018 iso.ks.cfg

-rw-------. 1 root root   164 Aug 24  2018 ks-post.log

-rw-------. 1 root root   381 Aug 24  2018 ks-post-toinstall.log

-rw-rw-r--. 1 root root   120 Aug 23 17:47 test.log

-bash-4.1# cd /media/usb-drive/

-bash-4.1# pwd

/media/usb-drive

Step 5. Before you copy the backup, check the md5 of backup from USB.

-bash-4.1# ls -lv

total 21197320

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 21706033973 Jun 28 14:57 pi-180419-1332__VER3.1.0.0.132_BKSZ204G_CPU16_MEM3G_RAM15G_SWAP15G_APP_CK1589549125.tar.gpg

drwx------. 2 root root       16384 Jun 28 14:29 lost+found

-bash-4.1#

-bash-4.1#

-bash-4.1# md5sum pi-180419-1332__VER3.1.0.0.132_BKSZ204G_CPU16_MEM3G_RAM15G_SWAP15G_APP_CK1589549125.tar.gpg

44daa932e7ca10fafe480302f7a17b6a  pi-180419-1332__VER3.1.0.0.132_BKSZ204G_CPU16_MEM3G_RAM15G_SWAP15G_APP_CK1589549125.tar.gpg

-bash-4.1#

-bash-4.1#

Step 6. Copy the backup in /localdisk/defaultRepo folder.

-bash-4.1# cp pi-180419-1332__VER3.1.0.0.132_BKSZ204G_CPU16_MEM3G_RAM15G_SWAP15G_APP_CK1589549125.tar.gpg /localdisk/defaultRepo/

-bash-4.1#

-bash-4.1#

-bash-4.1# cd /localdisk/defaultRepo/

-bash-4.1# ls -lv

total 21218032

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 21706033973 Aug 23 18:56 pi-180419-1332__VER3.1.0.0.132_BKSZ204G_CPU16_MEM3G_RAM15G_SWAP15G_APP_CK1589549125.tar.gpg

-bash-4.1#

-bash-4.1#

Step 7. Verify the md5 of copied backup with previous md5.

-bash-4.1# md5sum pi-180419-1332__VER3.1.0.0.132_BKSZ204G_CPU16_MEM3G_RAM15G_SWAP15G_APP_CK1589549125.tar.gpg

44daa932e7ca10fafe480302f7a17b6a  pi-180419-1332__VER3.1.0.0.132_BKSZ204G_CPU16_MEM3G_RAM15G_SWAP15G_APP_CK1589549125.tar.gpg

-bash-4.1#

-bash-4.1#

Step 8. Unmount the directory.

-bash-4.1# umount /media/usb-drive

-bash-4.1#

-bash-4.1#

-bash-4.1#