@LeeAnnChilders wrote:
On top of verifying server IP, hostname, domain, and DNS servers, you'll get the same error ("Unable to restore the data - Cannot find the deployment type, Restore completed...") if you're restoring your backup from a cluster that had subscribers (CUCM or IMP) and you haven't already added them in CM Administration > Systems > Servers. I'm not sure if formatting matters here (FQDN vs. IP) but I stick to adding them exactly the same as before. Since you were/are running this in a test environment, you may or may not have DNS availability. If not, IP it is...
We've carried out Publisher restores a number of times without adding the subs to the database first. The process we've followed was clean install of Publisher (correct version and details etc), connect it to the network with the existing Subscribers still live, then carry out the DRS restore.
That was the process in the Cisco document, and to my mind if you created the subs on the empty publisher before the restore, don't you run the risk of the empty database being pushed out to the subscribers?
Having said that I still have a quick check of the documentation for the exact version each time I carry this out.
