05-27-2011 01:50 PM - edited 03-19-2019 03:01 AM
We have a unity primary and failover server and we need to rebuild both. In the instructions it states if you rebuild the Primary first by failing over and making the failover server the primary you will need to do a dirt restore to the newly configured box prior to running failover config. Can someone please expalin why you would need to restore data to the newly rebuilt server prior to running the failover wizard. I would think that you keep the newly rebuilt server with a clean database and run the failover wizard on both the primary and the failover and it synchs the database with the newly rebuilt server.
05-30-2011 04:00 PM
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05-30-2011 04:53 PM
Here is the information for DiRT as per http://www.ciscounitytools.com/Applications/Unity/DIRT/Help/index.html
"When restoring a backup intended to work as a failover system, be sure to restore the DiRT backup to a stand alone server first, make sure it's running properly then run the failover configuration wizard on that server. You cannot restore a DiRT backup onto either a primary or secondary failover pair, it will not work properly. If you have two Unity servers configured for fail over it's best to backup the Unity server configured as the fail over server, not the primary if possible. The primary Unity server will have additional links in SQL setup for replicating to the fail over server database and these links will be broken when you restore to a new server. If you then try to reconfigure fail over capabilities on that server it will fail. There’s no way to automatically remove these flags from the backed up database so if you have backed up the primary Unity server you will need to manually clean up the SQL properties after restore. The DiRT restore notices the fact that the restored database has these links and will pop up a warning dialog at the end of the restore reminding you of these."
Hailey
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06-01-2011 06:26 AM
Thanks, I meant to dig in to the help file on this, figured it was in there.
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