Keywords

NTP

Applied Products

• AnyBackup CDM 7.0.x
• AnyBackup Express 7.0.x

Targets

NTP server address can be modified after installation of AnyBackup Software according to this best practice.

Resolution

Please follow the steps.

1.Log on the AnyBackup node through SSH tools, input the following command to check the AnyBackup installation path.

ps -ef |grep esf

2.Input the following command to modify the configuration file of chrony.conf, in the example, 172.17.234.236 is the NTP address. Save and exit after modification.

vi /backupsoft/AnyBackupServer/sys/chrony/etc/chrony.conf 

3.Restart chronyd service.

systemctl restart chronyd

More information

The network time protocol (NTP) is the most often used network clock synchronization protocol in software synchronization, and it is well suited to large networks. High precision time is one of the most important business requirements as well as an important challenge. The Network time protocol (NTP) is a time synchronization protocol that is used to deal with the issue of high precision. It is a protocol that is used to synchronize the time of a computer that is located in a different geographical location on the internet in order to keep the same time.