Dear colleagues,

it’s always good to schedule a backup (you know just in case). You have three options to do it:

• Local Authentication Manager Server
  • the easiest to deploy
  • sometimes “the fastest”
  • less dependencies on storage and networking team
  • backup is stored by default under /opt/rsa/am/backup
  • no need to cross FW
• Windows Shared Folder (preferred one)
  • CIFS share needed configured with security descriptor
  • FW rules needed
  • “slower” than local
• NFS (Network File System) Share Folder
  • similar to CIFS but security of the share is based on IP (NFS)
  • FW rules needed
  • “faster” than CIFS

Recipe (on demand backup):

• connect to the Primary instance’s Operations Console
• go to Maintenance – Backup and Restore – Backup Now

• adjust the Backup Name to your naming policy by default it will reflect date and time also provide the password to encrypt the backup with

Password policy:

Your password must contain:•8 to 32 characters
•At least 1 alphabetic character
•At least 1 special character
•Not allowed: @~

Note: Any leading or trailing space characters will be automatically removed.

Local Manager Server

• select Local Authentication Manager Server radio button and then click on Backup button

• wait until the process finishes and review the result

Windows Shared Folder

• select Windows Shared Folder radio button
• provide share name which this instance has access to (in terms of network); service account credentials should be provided to you by relevant team responsible of the share; finally click on Backup button

• wait until the process finishes and review the result

Recipe (schedule backup):

• connect to the Primary Replica Operations Console
• go to Maintenance – Backup and Restore – Schedule Backups

• select the Scheduled Backup on this deployment is radio button to On

• Backup Configuration: Backup password (see password policy above)
• Maximum Number of Archived Backups (if saving locally RSA recommends only 4), if saving externally – check with your backup policy, you can have up to 14)
• Backup Location (same choices as on demand)
• Schedule: (check with backup policy) you can run in daily; click on Done button

• review the result

Recipe (monitor backups):

• connect to the Primary Replica Operations Console
• go to Maintenance – Backup and Restore – Schedule Backups

• select backup type and provide necessary information (same choices as backup on demand)
• click on Next button

• review the backup list