token backup login

Log the Backup Token Administrator into the backup token. This command is used immediately before performing a firmware update on a backup token.

Remember to always log out of the backup token using the token backup logout command.

WHEN to USE LunaSH "token backup" commands:  

LunaSH token backup commands operate a SafeNet Luna Backup HSM attached directly to SafeNet Luna Network HSM via USB, and are not intended for use with remotely connected backup devices.
You might have a locally-connected backup HSM (connects directly to a SafeNet Luna Network HSM via USB cable) and a locally connected serial terminal and be walking them from SafeNet Luna Network HSM to SafeNet Luna 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 Luna 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 Luna Network HSM perspective, those are both local backup operations to a backup HSM that is locally connected to the appliance.

If the computer and Backup HSM are located near you and remote/distant from your SafeNet Luna Network HSM appliance(s), use the backup commands in the lunacm utility supplied with the SafeNet Luna Network HSM Client software (which must be installed on the computer that is acting as Remote Backup server) - the appliance token backup commands are not designed to work for Remote Backup.

An external SafeNet Luna Backup HSM can be USB-connected to a SafeNet Luna Network HSM appliance for local backup/restore operations.

SafeNet Luna Network HSM does not pass PED operations and data through to an externally connected SafeNet Luna backup HSM from a Luna PED that is connected locally to the SafeNet Luna Network HSM.

If the external HSM is PED-authenticated, then the options for Luna PED connection are:

>local PED connection, directly to the affected HSM, when needed, or

>Remote PED connection, passed through the SafeNet Luna Network HSM

User Privileges

Users with the following privileges can perform this command:

>Admin

>Operator

Syntax

token backup login -serial <serialnum> [-password <password>]

Argument(s)	Shortcut	Description
-serial <serialnum>	-s	Specifies the serial number of the backup HSM/token.
-password <password>	-p	Specifies the Backup Token Administrator’s password. This parameter is mandatory in SafeNet Luna Network HSM with Password Authentication. It is ignored in SafeNet Luna Network HSM with PED Authentication.

Example

lunash:>token backup login -serial 496771


  Please enter Token Administrator's password:
  > ********

'token backup login' successful.


Command Result : 0 (Success)