Best practices for backing up an appliance

Method

Description

Creating

Always use the HPE OneView backup feature to back up your appliance.


	CAUTION: Do not use any hypervisor-provided capabilities or snapshots to back up HPE OneView appliances because doing so can cause synchronization errors and result in unpredictable and unwanted behavior.

Frequency

Hewlett Packard Enterprise recommends backing up your appliance configuration regularly, preferably daily and especially:

After adding hardware
After changing the appliance configuration
Before and after updating the appliance firmware
After performing a factory reset of the frame

Hewlett Packard Enterprise provides and recommends using automatic backups, in which you can schedule backups to be taken regularly. For more information, see Configure automatic remote backups

You can back up the appliance while it is in use and while normal activity is taking place. You do not need to wait for tasks to stop before creating a backup file.

Archiving

The backup file format is proprietary. However, Hewlett Packard Enterprise recommends that you:

Create and download the backup file.
Store the backup file in a safe, off-appliance location to protect your sensitive data.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise provides and recommends a remote backup facility for storing backup files. For more information, see Configure automatic remote backups

Hewlett Packard Enterprise recommends using an enterprise backup product such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Protector to archive backup files. For information on Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Protector, see the following website:

http://www.hpe.com/software/dataprotector

Hewlett Packard Enterprise provides REST APIs for integration with enterprise backup products.

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