DataPower Secure Backup with DPBuddy

Secure backup is the only way to backup the entire device, including keys and certificates. Therefore, it is desirable to run it on a regular basis.

You can easily do it with dpbuddy using its support for "do-action" command. Secure backup is simply one of the actions with a few additional parameters.

Here's how it could be expressed using Ant and dpbuddy. Note that we're using "local://" filesystem as a destination; in reality you probably want to use "ftp:" instead.

<target name="secure-backup" description="Backup the entire device">
    <tstamp/>
    <dp:action>
        <SecureBackup>
            <cert>test-cert</cert>
            <destination>local://sbackup-${DSTAMP}</destination>
        </SecureBackup>
    </dp:action>
</target>

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