Table of Contents Table of Contents Title and Copyright Information About this Guide Revision History 1 Session Monitor Backup and Restore 2 Backup and Restore Strategies 3 Creating a Backup of Session Monitor Prerequistes for Taking a Backup of Session Monitor Preparing Session Monitor for taking the Backup Taking a Backup of the Essential OCSM Files Block Storage Backup MySQL Backup (From Version 4.4 & 5.0) Starting the MySQL Backup Procedure Change the Character Set Encoding of MySQL Backup Taking MySQL Dump of the Blocks Table Copy the MySQL Backup Directory to the Target Machine MySQL Backup (From Version 5.1) Taking MySQL Dump of the Blocks Table Copy the MySQL Backup Directory to the Target Machine Redis Backup Post Backup Tasks 4 Restoring Backup Prerequisites for Restoring Backup Preparing for the Restore Restore Procedure for Backup Created Using Strategy 1 Generate SSH Key Install rsync and parallel Restoring Essential OCSM Files Restoring Block Storage Restoring MySQL Installing mysql-shell Utility Restoring MySQL Backup Execute the MySQL Delta Script Restore the blocks Table Restoring Redis Restore Procedure for Backup Created Using Strategy 2 Restoring Essential OCSM Files Restoring MySQL Running the mysqlsh Shell Utility Execute the MySQL Delta Script Restoring Blocks Tables Restoring Redis Post Restore Tasks