Checkmk multisite, is centralized backup from the master an option

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I have 3 sites, 1 master and 2 slaves.

I setup a backup of the master, but it does not seem to be backing up the configuration for the 2 slave sites.

OR, at least the backup directory doesn’t have backups for the remote sites in it, only the master.

Does the master contain the backups for all sites?

Is this an option I’m missing?

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In a normal distributed environment all slaves have the same config. That means the backup of the master contains the same configuration as it on every slave.
Only the event history and the performance data of the monitored objects are stored on every slave alone.
If only the configuration is important than a backup on the master is enough.

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We need the events and perfdata backed up on the slaves as well, so what I did was on each slave set up a backup job in WATO. The backup gets saved in a special directory on the slave that apache has access to (apache is configured so that only the master IP can access that directory). On the master, I’ve then got cron entries which regularly wgets the backup files from the slave URLs and saves them into a redundant NFS share.

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For now the configuration is all I am worried about.

Can the documentation be updated to explain how to backup multisite, both configuration only and perf/event data?

Thanks

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