Hello Team,
i have some questions on full backup:
what does Backup File Contains?
does it contain profile, users, group, domain,policies?
Also if we are using external identity source and taking full backup, will everything be backed up?
if i take backup of authentication manager which is hosted on hardware appliance and importing that backup on the authentication manager which is hosted on virtual appliance, will it work?
A few important points - the backup dump file contains;
1. agents, RADIUS clients, tokens, User PINs, On-Demand and RBA assignments, RADIUS profiles, groups, policies, Admin Roles, Security Domains
2. Users: from the Internal database and the LDAP external Identity Source configurations that allow AM to find Users in AD or other LDAP Identity Source, including the LDAP Admin account and password
3. The AM Primary configuration FQDN and IP address(es) as well as the server.cer internal certificate (and its copy in the sdconf.rec file) used by TCP and ReST agents. UDP based agents do not use certificates - they have their own encryption methods
The backup dump file kind of contains;
1. the replicas - however this only works when this backup dump is restored to the same primary it was taken on. You can restore a backup dump from one primary (e.g. Production) to another Primary (e.g. Dev, provided they run the same version of AM) but the replicas will not work, and you would overwrite any configuration of TCP or ReST agents. Note: the same Primary means the exact same primary and not a primary that looks like the original, e.g. same name and FQDN. There are benefits to running primaries on VMware because you can clone a VM. You can also snapshot a VM, which is a great help on a version update that does not allow roll-back, especially if an update fails.
The backup dump file does not contain;
1. the key stores that contain replacement console and web tier certificates