Dell FluidFS NAS Solutions Administrator's Guide

Restoring the system configuration provides an effective way for you to restore most of the system settings (such as protocol configuration and local users and groups) without having to manually reconfigure the settings. This can be useful after upgrading a system with a new software release, after a fresh installation of the system, or after recovering a system.

The system configuration can be restored by taking the configuration stored on the most updated NAS volume in the cluster and restoring in on the current system. You must copy the configuration to the NAS volume from its backup or from another system.

Whenever a change in the system's configuration is made, it is automatically saved in a format that will allow restoring it afterwards. The configuration is stored in the .clusterConfig folder, which is located in every NAS volume root folder.

This folder can be backed up, either individually or together with the volume's user data, and later restored. In order for the stored configuration in the folder to take effect, the administrator must first copy the .clusterConfig folder to one of the NAS volumes on the system and then apply the configuration to the system.

The following parameters can be restored:

• Protocols Configuration
• Users and Groups
• User Mappings
• Monitoring configuration
• Time Configuration
• Antivirus hosts