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Start or Stop the Backup Agent¶
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Overview¶
For maintenance or troubleshooting purposes, you may want to temporarily shut down or restart Ops Manager Backup’s Backup Agent. However, for proper operation of Ops Manager Backup your Ops Manager group must have at least one Backup Agent running. The group needs only one Backup Agent.
Procedures¶
Start the Backup Agent¶
The procedure to Install the Backup Agent includes a step to start the agent. If you must restart the agent, use the following procedure.
Start an Agent Installed with an rpm
Package¶
If you installed the Backup Agent using an rpm
package, such as on RHEL,
CentOS, or SUSE, issue the following command to start the agent:
Start an Agent Installed with a deb
Package¶
If you installed the Backup Agent using a deb
package, as on Ubuntu, issue
the following command to start the agent:
Start an Agent Installed with a tar
File¶
Use this command if you installed to Linux or OSX using a tar
file. Issue
the following command from the directory to which you installed the Backup
Agent:
Start the Backup Agent on Windows¶
In Windows Control Panel
, open Administrative Tools
and then
Services
. In the list of services, select MMS Backup Agent
. Select
the Action
menu and select Start
.
Stop the Backup Agent¶
If you use Ops Manager Backup, you must have a Backup Agent running to ensure up-to-date backup data.
Stop an Agent Installed with an rpm
Package¶
If you installed the Backup Agent using an rpm
package, such as on RHEL,
CentOS, or SUSE, issue the following command to stop the agent:
Stop an Agent Installed with a deb
Package¶
If you installed the Backup Agent using a deb
package, as on Ubuntu, issue
the following command to stop the agent:
Stop an Agent Installed with a tar
File¶
If you installed to a Linux system or OSX using a tar
file, issue the
following command to stop the Backup Agent:
Stop the Backup Agent on Windows¶
In Windows Control Panel
, open Administrative Tools
and then
Services
. In the list of services, select MMS Backup Agent
. Select
the Action
menu and select Stop
.
If you receive a message that your Backup Agent is out of date, make sure you
are running an upgradeable version of the Backup Agent. If you are running the
version of the Backup Agent named MongoDBBackup
, you must remove it before
upgrading. To check if you are running MongoDBBackup
, issue the following
command in an Administrative command prompt:
If the command returns a result, you must remove the MongoDBBackup
agent.
To remove it, issue the following: