Backing up your data

Automatic backup occurs daily, at 3:00 AM, or you can start the backup process manually.

Procedure

  1. Using SSH, log in your IBM QRadar SIEM Console as the root user.
  2. Using SSH from the QRadar Console, log in to QRadar Risk Manager as the root user.
  3. Start a QRadar Risk Manager backup by typing the following command:

    /opt/qradar/bin/dbmaint/risk_manager_backup.sh

Results

The script that is used to start the backup process might take several minutes to start.

The following message is an example of the output that is displayed, after the script completes the backup process:
Fri Sep 11 10:14:41 EDT 2015
- Risk Manager Backup complete,
wrote /store/qrm_backups/backup-2015-09-11-10-14-39.tgz