System Recovery

System Recovery from POSTGRES Backup

Verity 6.3.0 +

If the vNETC is part of a high availability deployment, please refer to the instructions in the High Availability configuration section.

Recovering an HA site from POSTGRES backup

Otherwise, proceed as follows:

1. Transfer a database backup of the system being recovered to the new system. This would come from the SFTP backup server if configured, or from the old system under the directory: /var/ns/backups/postgres/active/archive/. The file will typically have a name like: 20240514T164709.116Z.tbz
2. Place the backup file in a convenient location, such as /tmp or /var/ns/direct.
3. Shut down the operations services using: service ns_init stop
4. Run the restore command specifying the transferred file, eg: ns_restore -b /tmp/20240514T164709.116Z.tbz . This restores the database and system configuration from the database backup.
5. Once complete, restart system services using: service ns_init start
6. virsh console into SDLC and run the setup to point to the vNetC.