ā05-30-2012 11:17 AM - edited ā03-16-2019 11:24 AM
Hey Everyone,
My boss mentioned to me that he wants to start making backup's of our cisco voice enviornment. Currently we have 4 servers.
1) UCCX
2) Unity
3) UCMPU
4) UCMSUB
All of these servers are build with a RAID 1 mirror. He mentioned that typically people will pull one hard drive to keep as a backup, and then rebuild the mirror with a new blank hard drive.
Is this something anyone can speak to? It sounds pretty straightforward, but I want to find out if there is a typical procedure you would follow for this. I've done similar things with Windows servers, but never in a cisco enviornment.
ā05-30-2012 11:25 AM
Just an FYI, we do not support that as a backup method. We only support swapping HDDs in case of failure.
Otherwise, just use the backup method for each product that we provide.
HTH
java
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ā05-30-2012 11:30 AM
Hi John,
I'll just add a reference to the great tips from my friend Java (+5 "J") Bosses always
want to see these things in writing
Cisco only supports replacing failed hard drives. Cisco does not support drive pulling/swapping as a method of fast upgrade reversion, restore, or server recovery. For information on replacing a failed hard drive, refer to the Troubleshooting Guide for Cisco Unified Communications Manager.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/rel_notes/7_1_3/cucm-rel_notes-713.html#wp1600579
So...DRS is your best friend here;
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/drs/7_1_2/drsag712.html
Cheers!
Rob
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