04-03-2023 04:55 AM
Hello
I want to use PCD Ver 14 as backup device.
I want to increase the virtual disk. What is the steps and command.
Thank you
04-03-2023 05:02 AM
You can use PCD for backup, but I would recommend to use an SFTP application and map it your network drive.
04-04-2023 02:41 AM
Frustratingly, Cisco has rescinded support for everything else (previously OpenSSH, Cygwin, or TitanFTP); PCD is the only option now if you want TAC support. I’m still mad about it but have failed to change their position on the matter. DRS does not checksum a backup after uploading it to the SFTP server - and I have seen it mark a backup successful in the past yet not be able to restore from it because the upload was incomplete.
04-04-2023 03:48 AM
Moving backup to network storage we must do it manually with PCD one thing which I hate.
I still rely on the third SFTP applications.. Anyways thanks for sharing the info..
01-16-2024 05:01 PM
Hi Nithin,
Is it supported to modify the vDisk of PCD to use it for DRS backups? We will need much more than 80GB (v14) to use it as a backup server for most of our Cisco collab applications.
Thanks,
Libin Benedict
01-16-2024 09:57 PM
AFAIK it is not supported by Cisco to change the size of the virtual hard drive.
01-17-2024 07:26 AM
The PCD documentation has an Increase Disk Space for Migrations section. It's surprising that a command isn't necessary to increase the logical volume partition to use the additional space though; there must be a startup script that does this automatically at boot or something.
01-17-2024 02:40 PM
Thanks for the reponse, Roger! I am wondering why Cisco is promoting it as the only TAC-supported SFTP, yet limiting the size of the disk knowing that the collab applications take more space than the 80GB.
01-17-2024 10:01 PM
Really good question, I have no clue. We don’t use PCD for our backups, we use an old version of SolarWind SFTP that doesn’t have a limitation for file size and have been doing so for many years. It works great for us, in fact I used a backup from this as late as last week when we rebuilt our sandbox CM to upgrade it to v15.
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