ASTi recently discovered that the backup and restore functionality provided by the Telestra web interface does not completely restore the configuration of Diskless Clients on a Telestra used as a Diskless Server. This limitation is present in all Telestra releases at least up to 3.27-1. This function will be fixed in a future software release, but for now follow these manual procedures to get a complete reproduction of Diskless Server functionality.
If you are not using your Telestra as a Diskless Server, you can ignore this entire Application Note. If you are using the Diskless Server functionality, it is important that you perform these steps to make a complete backup so that you can recover from a hardware fault or a cold-start.
There are four steps required for this process:
In order to perform these steps, you must have a different machine which supports Secure File Transfer (SFTP) access, (e.g., another Telestra or Linux machine).
Note: These steps should be done in addition to performing the normal system backup and model backup procedures as described in the Telestra 3.0 User Guide. In other words, you should perform all other backups (as described in the User Guide) prior to step 1 and all other restorations prior to step 3.
Create the supplementary backup file by entering the following commands as the root user on the Diskless Server Telestra.
cd /var/ftpd tar cfz DisklessServer.tgz *
To store the file on a remote machine enter:
sftp@ Password: put DisklessServer.tgz quit
To transfer the backup to a new Telestra enter the following commands as the root user on new (replacement or cold-started) Telestra.
cd /var/ftpd sftp@ Password: get DisklessServer.tgz quit
To restore Diskless Server configuration enter:
tar xfz DisklessServer.tgz reboot
The Telestra should now be able to perform the Diskless Server functionality just as it did prior to the cold-start.