Scheduling backups of user-defined virtual devices by using the viosbr command

You can schedule regular backups of the user-defined virtual devices on the Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) logical partition. Scheduling regular backups ensures that your backup copy accurately reflects the current configuration.

About this task

To ensure that your backup of the user-defined virtual devices accurately reflects your currently running VIOS, back up the configuration information of the user-defined virtual devices each time that the configuration changes.

Before you start, run the ioslevel command to verify that the VIOS is at Version 2.1.2.0, or later.

Procedure

To back up the configuration information of the user-defined virtual devices, run the viosbr command as follows: 
viosbr -backup -file /tmp/myserverbackup -frequency how_often
where,
  • /tmp/myserverbackup is the file to which you want to back up the configuration information.
  • how_often is the frequency with which you want to back up the configuration information. You can specify one of the following values:
    • daily: Daily backups occur every day at 00:00.
    • weekly: Weekly backups occur every Sunday at 00:00.
    • monthly: Monthly backups occur on the first day of every month at 00:01.