B Backing Up and Restoring Oracle VM Manager

Back up Oracle VM Manager before you:

• Uninstall Oracle VM Manager.

• Move the Oracle VM Server from one computer to another.

• Make any major change in Oracle VM Manager.

This Appendix includes the following topics:

• Backing Up Oracle VM Manager

• Restoring Oracle VM Manager

B.1 Backing Up Oracle VM Manager

Before you back up Oracle VM Manager, make sure the status of all Oracle VM Servers in the server pool is Running.

To back up Oracle VM Manager:

1. Log in to an Oracle VM Server in the server pool as the root user.

2. Back up the Oracle VM Manager shared storage resources stored in the following directories:

   • /OVS/running_pool for virtual machine images

   • /OVS/seed_pool for virtual machine templates

   • /OVS/iso_pool for ISO files

   Skip this step if you have enabled a shared storage backup mechanism.

3. Log into the Oracle VM Manager host as the root user.

4. Back up the existing Oracle VM Manager data:

   # sh /opt/ovs-manager-2.2/bin/backup.sh
   

   Enter 1 to back up the data.

   Please enter the choice: [1|2]
   1. Back up Oracle VM Manager,
   2. Restore Oracle VM Manager
   

   Enter the database information, and the path for the dump and log files.

   Back up data now ...
   Please enter the password for database account 'OVS':
   Please specify the path for dump file?
   Please specify the path for log file?
   

Oracle VM Manager is backed up.

B.2 Restoring Oracle VM Manager

To restore Oracle VM Manager:

1. Log in to an Oracle VM Server in the server pool as the root user.

2. Restore the backed up Oracle VM Manager shared storage resources into the following directories respectively:

   • /OVS/running_pool for virtual machine images

   • /OVS/seed_pool for virtual machine templates

   • /OVS/iso_pool for ISO files

3. Log into the Oracle VM Manager host as the root user.

4. Shut down Oracle VM Manager:

   # service oc4j stop
   

5. Restore the backed up Oracle VM Manager data:

   # sh /opt/ovs-manager-2.2/bin/backup.sh
   

   Enter 2 to restore the data.

   Please enter the choice: [1|2]
   1. Back up Oracle VM Manager,
   2. Restore Oracle VM Manager
   

   Enter the database information, and the path for the dump and log files.

   Please enter the password for database account 'SYS':Please enter the password for database account 'OVS':Please specify the path for dump file?Please specify the path for log file?
   

   For example, enter:

   Please enter the password for database account 'SYS':
   Please enter the password for database account 'OVS':
   Please specify the path for dump file?/dump
   Please specify the path for log file?/log
   

6. Start up Oracle VM Manager:

   # service oc4j start
   

Oracle VM Manager is restored.