The provisioning service on the external OTP installation server must be backed up as described in To Back Up the Provisioning Service on the External OTP Installation Server
Log in to the external OTP installation server as root.
Type the following command to back up the provisioning service.
su - spsotp \ /var/otp/spsotp/N1_Service_Provisioning_System_5.2/server/bin/cr_restore.sh \ -b /var/otp/spsotp/N1_Service_Provisioning_System_5.2 \ -f /var/tmp/backup tar file name \ -l /var/tmp/log_file_name \ -t /var/tmp -shutdown yes -nors -noconfig -nokeystore -overwrite yes |
where backup tar file name is the name of the backup tar file created in To Back Up the Provisioning Service on the External OTP Installation Server, and log file name is the name you specify for the log file. The system date and time stamp is automatically appended to the log file name you specify. For example, /var/tmp/restore_log.070411145059