Timeseries database - backup

Run the backupRestoreClient.sh script that is available in /opt/IBM/basecamp/basecamp-timeseries/bin directory. It can be used for both backup and restore operations on timeseries database in Network Performance Insight®.

About this task

When the action for the script is backup, the backupRestoreClient.sh script calls the /opt/IBM/basecamp/basecamp-timeseries/bin/backup.sh script to perform the backup operations.
Note: Make sure that the directory that is specified in the backupPath option exists before you perform the operation.

Procedure

Run the backupRestoreClient.sh script for backup as follows: 
cd /opt/IBM/basecamp/basecamp-timeseries/bin
./backupRestoreClient.sh -action=backup -backupPath=<LOCAL_BACKUP_DIRECTORY> - backupHost=<myserver.ibm.com>
Where:
  • action can be backup or restore options.
  • backupPath is the path where backup data can be placed.
  • backupHost is the Fully qualified domain name of the server where the backup data is available.

./backupRestoreClient.sh -action=backup -backupPath=/tmp/backup - backupHost=<myserver.ibm.com>
If your Network Performance Insight cluster has three agent nodes, the backup script archives the data from each node and save the TAR files on the host that is specified in the script. For example, the following archived files are available in <myserver.ibm.com>:
  • Cassandra_backup_<hostname1>.tar
  • Cassandra_backup_<hostname2>.tar
  • Cassandra_backup_<hostname3>.tar