Hi there!
We currently have an InControl2 and InControl2-DB virutal appliance installed on our VMware ESXi Severs.
For backups we use Veeam.
We want to backup both the virtual appliance for the InControl-DB and InControl2. We already have a backup job created for the InControl-DB in Veeam, but didn’t so for InControl2 since on the appliances management GUI it states that we can perform a backup on a remote machine as described:
curl -sko icabackup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tgz -u 'username:password' https://<yourserver>:4443/backups/latest.tgz
Now there are serveral questions which bug me:
- Why ins’t this discussed in the InControl2 appliance setup guide? I’ve looked through the entire setup guide but didn’t find any information regarding this topic. It’s just hinted on the the management GUI of InControl2, but there aren’t any information on the web reagarding this.
- Can we use another user instead of the management GUI admin? InControl2 is expecting a user for downloading the backup. The only user which has access to the management GUI of InControl2 is the admin user. There is no information on if we can create or use another user instead. Using the admin user for this is a high security risk since on the backup-server we need to provide the cleartext password for downloading / accessing the backup file. So there should be another user with which we should access the backup. Are there any informations on that?
- How can we restore a backup with this method? Now let’s say we could get around the backup-problem with the admin user, how can we restore the backup? I couldn’t find any information on the web or in this forum regarding this.
Is there anyone with further information for using the curl-backup method?