Exporting Folders
You can perform large restore operations by exporting folders from the CTERA Portal onto a portable hard drive or a new device, and delivering it to the customer.
To export folders:
1 Mount a hard drive on one of the CTERA Portal servers.
2 In the command line, enter the following command:
telnet localhost
3 Enter the following command:
login admin admin username
Where username is your CTERA Portal global administrator user name.
You are prompted for your password.
4 Enter your password.
5 To export a snapshot of the folder other than the current one, do the following:
a Enter the following command:
snapshots list /portals/portal-name/backups/folder-name
Where:
• portal-name is the name of the virtual portal on which the desired backup folder is located.
• folder-name is the name of the backup folder for which you want to view a list of snapshots.
A list of folder snapshots is displayed, for example:
1351722386000 - 01.11.2015 12-26-26 AM
1351724574000 - 01.11.2015 1-02-54 AM
1351796267000 - 01.11.2015 8-57-47 PM
1351864966000 - 02.11.2015 4-02-46 PM
b Take note of the ID of the snapshot you want to export.
The snapshot ID is the long number at the beginning of each row.
6 Enter the following command:
export-folder /portals/portal-name/backups/folder-type path destination-path -s [snapshot-ID]
Where:
• portal-name is the name of the virtual portal on which the desired backup folder is located.
• folder-type is the folder's type: either "backups" or "homeFolders".
• path is the path within the cloud folder to export.
All files and subfolders located under this path will be exported. Use a slash "/" to export the entire cloud folder.
• destination-path is the path to the hard drive.
• snapshot-ID is the ID of the snapshot you want to export. If you do not include this parameter, the current snapshot will be exported.
The following things happen:
• If the folder is passphrase-protected, you are prompted to enter a passphrase. Enter you passphrase.
• The folder is exported to the selected destination folder.