Schedule a backup

You can perform a backup of the GV GUARDIAN Application data and the MySQL database. The backup can be used for system recovery after a catastrophic failure. There are two methods of data backup; immediate and scheduled. There are two options for back up folder locations; local and offsite.

Click Home | Grass Valley| Create Backups.
To schedule an offsite backup, do the following:
1. Enter the time of day you would like to execute the backup. Consider network impact when scheduling.
2. Enter the day of the week you would like to execute the backup
3. Click Submit.
  Note: This occurs via port 22, Secure Key Copy.
To schedule a local backup, do the following:
1. Enter the time of day you would like to execute the backup. Consider network impact when scheduling.
2. Enter the day of the week you would like to execute the backup
3. Enter user name of file transfer destination machine
4. Enter the password of the file transfer destination machine
5. Enter the hostname or IP address of the file transfer destination machine
6. Enter the folder network path for the file transfer destination machine.
7. Click Submit.
To start an immediate offsite backup, do the following:
1. Click Backup Now to start an immediate backup to the GV Long Term storage archive.
  Note: This occurs via port 22, Secure Key Copy.
Start an immediate local backup, do the following:
1. Enter user name of file transfer destination machine
2. Enter the Password of the file transfer destination machine
3. Enter the hostname or IP address of the file transfer destination machine
4. Enter the folder network path for the file transfer destination machine.
5. Click Backup Now.