Automatic databases backup upon upgrade
You can configure your BigFix
Server to automatically run the backup of the BFENT
and BESREPOR
databases before and after running the upgrade process.
To enable this behavior you must assign an existing path, accessible
both by
root
and by the database instance owner,
by default db2inst1
, to the advanced option automaticBackupLocation
,
for example:/opt/BESServer/bin/BESAdmin.sh -setadvancedoptions
-sitePvkLocation=<pvkLocation> -sitePvkPassword=<pvkPassword>
-update automaticBackupLocation="/my/path"
This behavior applies both when you run the upgrade from the command line and when you run the upgrade by deploying the upgrade Fixlet.
Two backups are generated for each of the
BFENT
and BESREPOR
databases during this process, one before the upgrade and one after the upgrade, for a total of four
backups. The files containing the backups are stored in the directory that you specified in the
automaticBackupLocation
advanced option.Note: Ensure that there is enough disk
space available on the file system to store the four backup files.
These are sample backup files generated during the
upgrade:
BFENT.0.db2inst1.DBPART000.20160711142219.001
BESREPOR.0.db2inst1.DBPART000.20160711142240.001
BFENT.0.db2inst1.DBPART000.20160711142306.001
BESREPOR.0.db2inst1.DBPART000.20160711142327.001
The
fifth digit in the file name is a time stamp. For example, 20160711142219
in the
first file means 2016-07-11 at 14:22:19
.In the installation log BESInstall.log you can see the time stamp of each database backup along with the information about whether the backup was generated before or after the upgrade.