CUCM 8.5 Typical Network Backup Size?

[marcuscastellanos]

Greetings all,

Our upgrade from 4.1 to 8.5 has been successfull! (What a interesting past few months it has been)

We are getting currently backing up manually via tape drives, and we want to move to network backups.

The only limitation we can see is it must be backedup to a SFTP server.  We are planning this, but we need to know what a typical network backup size would be?

Anyone currently backing up over the network have input? Thanks!

We are currently running 1 pub, and 3 subs, with 2 CME's in place.  Around 1000+phones, and 1k extensions.

[William Bell]

I just so happen to be looking at something similar for one of my customers. I had to pull a DRS file over VPN to stage an upgrade. Anyway, the cluster I am dealing with has:

6 nodes

4000+ phones

The backup of the 8.6.2 is 205MB (135MB of that is for CDR, they have set maximums for CDR purge -- they like to keep everything)

Other systems I have looked at that were in that mid-size neighborhood were  ~100MB or so for backup storage. Now, you have to determine how many backups you want to keep.

HTH

-Bill (http://ucguerrilla.com)

[Aaron Harrison · Accepted solution]

Mine have been bigger recently...

I'm looking at a backup of a single server install, which is 623Mb. Largest bit is the TFTP server at 568Mb.

Another backup is a 7-server cluster (pub, 2x tftp, 4x processing nodes) and that's 1.5gb. Again mainly the TFTP servers taking up the space...

Aaron

[marcuscastellanos]

How about Unity Size for backup? We're thinking unity might be larger