Managing Your Backups

You can use the following information to manage your backups. This section has the following topics:

• Viewing Available Backups

• Quick-Check Backup

• Full-Check Backup

• Deleting a Backup

• Disabling Scheduled Automatic Backups

Viewing Available Backups

To view all the available backups, use the following command from the database scripts path (/opt/arcsight-db-tools/scripts):

./db_backup.sh list

Quick-Check Backup

You can collect all backup metadata from the backup location specified in the configuration file and compare that metadata to the backup manifest using the following command from the database scripts path (/opt/arcsight-db-tools/scripts):

./db_backup.sh quick-check

Full-Check Backup

Verify all objects listed in the backup manifest against the filesystem metadata using the following command from the database scripts path (/opt/arcsight-db-tools/scripts):

./db_backup.sh full-check

Available options:

--report-file=<path or a file name>

Deleting a Backup

To delete a backup, use the following command from the database scripts path (/opt/arcsight-db-tools/scripts):

./db_backup.sh remove --archive=<timestamp>

For example:

./db_backup.sh remove --archive=20211006_205934

Required options:

• --archive=<timestamp>

  To specify a timestamp of the backup you want to remove.

Disabling Scheduled Automatic Backups

To remove a job that runs scheduled backup, use following command from the database scripts path (/opt/arcsight-db-tools/scripts):

./db_backup.sh unschedule