LunaSH token backup commands operate a SafeNet Backup HSM attached directly to SafeNet Network HSM via USB, and are not intended for use with remotely connected backup devices.
You might have a locally-connected backup HSM
and a locally connected serial terminal and be walking them from SafeNet Network HSM to SafeNet Network HSM in your server room to perform backups. Or you might be administering remotely via SSH and lunash:> commands, while a technician in your server center carries the backup HSM from one SafeNet Network HSM to the next. In either case, these "token backup" commands are the method to use.The important distinction is where the backup HSM is physically connected - from the SafeNet Network HSM perspective, those are both local backup operations to a Backup HSM that is locally connected to the appliance.VTL backup commands operate a SafeNet Backup HSM connected to a computer, and located distantly from your primary SafeNet Network HSM appliance. The VTL backup commands are not for use with a SafeNet Backup HSM that is connected directly to your SafeNet Network HSM appliance.
For true, hands-off, lights-out operation of your SafeNet appliances, use a SafeNet Remote Backup HSM located in your administrator's office
, connected to a computer acting as a Remote Backup server. This means the computer and Backup HSM are located near you and remote/distant from your SafeNet Network HSM appliance(s). For that application, use the backup commands in the VTL utility supplied with the SafeNet Network HSM Client software - the appliance token backup commands (previous paragraph) are not designed to work for Remote Backup.