[cisco-voip] Publisher Recovery

[Mike Armstrong]

I don't think there is a "database" on the subscriber.  As I understand it, 
it keeps some data queued to be applied when the Publisher comes back up, 
but nothing like your complete database.  If you haven't been backing up the 
Publisher regularly, your only recourse may be to put the hard drive in 
another machine and retrieve the data manually.  If the drive isn't 
readable, send the hard drive off to a recovery service and see if they can 
retrieve the data in some way.  TAC might be able to help you determine 
exactly which files you will need, but you're going to be without a 
Publisher for quite a while.  What was the nature of the crash?

Mike Armstrong
UF/IFAS CREC
Lake Alfred, FL

> Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 09:57:51 -0500
> From: "Michael L. Windon" <michael.windon at gmail.com>
> Subject: [cisco-voip] Publisher Recovery
> To: <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
>
> Issue: We have a Publisher and Single Subscriber Cluster. The Publisher 
> has
> crashed and will require a new install of OS, patches and CCM. I would 
> like
> to recover it to the Database still running on the subscriber. Can I
>
>
>
> 1.)     Promote the Subscriber to a Publisher and install the old 
> publisher
> as a subscriber?
>
> 2.)     Run BARS on the Subscriber and then recover the Publisher as a
> Publisher but use the BARS to restore the database?
>
> 3.)     Change the replication process to replicate one way from the
> subscriber to the publisher
>
> 4.)     Something Else
>
>
>
> Thanks in Advance!