MDS DR Best Practices

[dmjoen001]

HI,

I'm new to the world of Cisco MDS fabric switches.  I am interested in hearing what the experienced users like to save and document for disaster recovery purposes.  Our environment consists of two fabrics each with a single 9148S switch.  Since the configs can't be saved across the fabric, I gather I'll want to copy the switch configuration to a remote server.  I'd also be interested in automating this.  Are there any other best practices that people would be willing to share?

My apologies if I missed a previous posting on this topic.

Thanks!

[dynamoxxx · Accepted solution]

if you are using DCNM you can configure it to make backups of your switch config. Or you can use built-in MDS scheduler to tftp/scp/ftp your config to an external server.

[dmjoen001]

Thanks.  We are in fact a DCNM shop, so I'll definitely look in to that.