If your Administrator has sent you parameters of its storage server you can define your Artica server as a slave server.
A slave server is able to send its local storage to a "Storage" server.
To enable your Artica server as a slave server, follow these instructions :
- Click on "Manage Your server" On the top menu.
- Select "Security" on the left pane
- Select "Configure your backup" on the right pane.
- On the "Incremental backup" section, select "Remote Synchronization" tab.
- Click on the "Remote Client Synchronization" icon.
- On the left pan, turn to green the "Activate Remote Push"
- If you turn to green "Use Only Synchronization", Artica will not perform local backup, only the remote backup will be performed.
This should safe free space and CPU during the backup operation. - On the right pan, define the remote server parameters that are sended to your administrator.
You can fill "Alternate Backup server" if you have a secondary storage server.
This Alternate server will only used if the first server is not available (if your Internet connection is down for example).
Click on "What To Backup" icon in order to define what you want to push to the remote server
You have 8 areas you can backup to the remote server :
Artica configuration files: will backup all /etc/artica-postfix path that help you to restore a new Artica server.
- LDAP Databases : Will backup LDAP data that stores parameters and accounts.
- Mysql databases: Will backup all tables events and some configuration settings used by Artica.
- Mailboxes : If you use your Artica server as a mail server and if Cyrus-Imapd is installed, it will backup all mailboxes files.
- Backuped mails : Backuped mails will backup quarantined mails and backuped mails if the "Backup On the Fly" is enabled on Artica Messaging feature
- Samba Shared folders : Will backup all folders you have defined as shared if your Artica is a File Server.
- Home directories : Will backup all /home/* folders.
- User defined : Will backup specific folders you have selected.
