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Backup for VTM migration
Last Updated: July 07, 2026
This procedure allows you to backup a VTM 1.6 configuration on vManager in preparation migration to VTM 2.1.
  1. Open a terminal window with network access to the VM host.
  2. Become the root user.
  3. Navigate to /home/arris/bin.
  4. Run the arangoDB_dump script with the following command:
    ./arangoDB_dump [-f <optional: filepath/filename>] --halo-format=true
    If an optional filepath:filename was not specified, the backup archive is created in the /home/arris/vtmDBBackups directory with the default file name: arangoDB_Dump_<vtm version>_<Date>_<time>.tgz.
  5. Copy or save the archive to import to Domain Manager running VTM 2.1.
  6. Continue with the procedure Migrate VTM 1.6 to VTM 2.1.