After we have already written an article about the automatic backup of an ISAM 7360, we describe here the restore from this backup file.
It is assumed that a working SFTP server has been set up. The following assumptions are made in this example:
IP address SFTP server: 192.168.1.100
Folder on SFTP server: /mybackup
Backup file: dm_complete_10.0.0.1_20250713-18-00-00.tar
SFTP user: netcamp
SFTP password: netcamp2025
For a restore to be possible, the basic configuration must be restored so that an IP connection (SSH) to the ISAM is possible. Only the configuration for SSH access is listed here:
configure software-mngt database activate manually
configure system security ssh server-profile server-host-key rsaconfigure system security ssh access protocol ftp cli ssh debug udp-sshconfigure system security ssh sftp-user netcamp password plain:netcamp2025 key-type rsa2048configure system security filetransfer protocol sftpconfigure system security filetransfer server 192.168.1.100 user-name netcamp password plain:netcamp2025
The backup can now be downloaded to the ISAM with the following command:
admin software-mngt database download 192.168.1.100:mybackup/dm_complete_10.0.0.1_20250713-18-00-00.tar
The download process can be checked with the command show software-mngt upload-download. Depending on the size of the database, the download progress will be in “download-ongoing” status for a longer period of time until it changes to “download-sucess”. If the download fails, the previous command can be entered again until it is successful.
With show software-mngt oswp you can check in which partition the active ISAM software is running (there are two partitions).
In this example, we assume that the software is active in partition 2. The following command can therefore be used to link the database uploaded via SFTP to the software.
admin software-mngt oswp 2 activate with-linked-db
Entering the command automatically restarts the ISAM.
➡️ If several backups are uploaded to the ISAM, the ISAM starts with the most recent backup, as the backup file cannot be selected. It therefore makes sense to upload only one backup so that you can be sure which backup will be restored.
