Enabling Archive Backups

This section covers the following topics:

• What are Archive Backups?

• To Enable Archive Backups

What are Archive Backups?

Archive backups consist of a snapshot and the log files that were created for it. The log files are not applied to the snapshot. The archive databases remain on disk until purged. See How Circular Backups Work.

To Enable Archive Backups

1. At a command line, change to the directory where the ics.conf is located:

   cd /etc/opt/SUNWics5/config

2. Enable archive backups by setting the following ics.conf parameter to “yes”:

   caldb.berkeleydb.archive.enable=”yes”

3. Specify the directory path for the archive directory:

   caldb.berkeleydb.archive.path=
      /var/opt/SUNWics5/archive_backup_directory
   

   You might choose to place the archive backups on an alternate disk or disk subsystem in case of a hardware failure on the primary disk drive. Doing this might also reduce I/O contention on the primary drive or subsystem.

   If you have a high availability (HA) configuration, specify the path as a subdirectory in shared storage (/global/cal/ ). See also, Chapter 7, Configuring for High Availability (Failover Service).

4. When you have completed editing the ics.conf file, restart Calendar Server:

   cal_svr_base/SUNWics5/cal/sbin/start-cal
   

   The calendar services do not need to be stopped to edit the ics.conf file, but you must restart the services in order for the changes to take effect.