What is in a System Configuration Backup file and what's in it?
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- System Configuration Backup file
Answer
- System Configuration Backup file is everything needed to bring the cluster and nodes back to the operational state (in case of disaster) when the configuration backup was taken.
- Node backups include configuration files under
/mroot/etc/
and incfcard
includingbootargs
. - Cluster backup files contain the node configuration and RDB replicated records backup for each node in the cluster.
- Additionally, they contain
manifest
andmd5
signature files. - Internal Structure of Backup Files:
cluster_backup_file
|-> MANIFEST
|-> node1name/node1_backup_file
|-> node2name/node2_backup_file
|-> cluster_replicated_records/replicated_records.7z
Additional Information
- RDB is a replicated data base of the cluster configuration. It contains names of ports, LIFs, SVMs, and volumes and other configuration information. No client data is kept in RDB.