Steel Belted Radius Carrier 7.0 Installation Guide > Before You Begin > Backing Up SIM Server 5.4 or 6.x Release Files

Backing Up SIM Server 5.4 or 6.x Release Files

If SIM Server 5.4, 6.0, or 6.1 is installed on a server and you want to carry these configuration files forward during the Release 7.0 installation, transfer a copy of the existing installation to the machine that will host SBR Carrier.

The recommended procedure is:

1. As root on the existing server, shut down the SBR daemon.
   Execute: /radiusdir/sbrd stop.
2. Create a gzip archive of the radiusdir directory, preserving the file structure.

Change directories to /opt/JNPRsbr/ and execute:
tar cfE - radius |gzip > radius.tgz

3. As root on the Release 7.0 host, create a working directory for the archive:

Execute:
mkdir -p /opt/JNPRsbr/backup

and:

cd /opt/JNPRsbr/backup

4. Copy the archive file to the Release 7.0 host.
5. Ungzip the archive in the working directory. This will not create a working installation, just serve as a source of files that can be reused by the Release 7.0 server.

Execute:
gunzip -dc radius.tgz |tar xf -

6. Check the file permissions on the unzipped archive to ensure that the files are writable.

Remember the path to the archive directory. During installation, the Release 7.0 configure script will prompt you to supply the location so some configuration files can be migrated into the new installation.