IPCC recover best practice

[ciscoforum]

What's the best practice from Cisco to do IPCC restore if the whole IPCC crashed ?

1.use Cisco BARS to restore data after rebuild the server?

2. Use veritias or ghost to restore the whole server including crs database?

Thanks

[jotiso]

Hello,

We do not support the use of veritas or ghost on the CRS server. The only supported backup method is BARS. You can also pull a mirrored drive as well.

HTH

[ciscoforum]

Thanks. If I backup CCM publisher and IPCC with BARS together, how does BARS know which files are used for IPCC restore since they are all in one zip file.

[jotiso]

you need to install BARS as a target on the IPCC Express server for this. And the software will take care of the rest.

[mo.ragheb]

When using BARS to backup the IPCC Express server. Does it backup EVERYTHING (including the Scripts)?

[yshraybman]

The best practice is to excersize disaster recovery regularly in the lab. This will answer all questions what is being backed up and you'll be familiar with the recovery process.

[phones4u_jcregeen]

Hi all,

Quick Q on BARS. Does the main application have to be installed on the ccm publisher, or can it be installed on a seperate server?

I really need to know as i'm having disk space issues during the backups which is causing instability on the main ccm

Thanks

[pralex]

BARS need to be installed on a server running Call Manager or one of its associated cisco IP telephony applications.

Regards

Prasanth

[phones4u_jcregeen]

Thanks, so i can install BARS as on our IPCC express server and use this as the main BARS schedualer?

then reinstall bars on the remaining callmanagers as a target.

[mo.ragheb]

Will BARS backup the Scripts and configuration from IPCC so that i can place it on another backup server?