[cisco-voip] Disaster Recovery: Using ghost to restore MCS Servers maybe?

[Jerky]

I can't say we actually had it as part of our disaster recovery plan  
but I can vouch that it works.

The third attempt was the charm during the process of migration to CM  
5.1. I used it as a quick restoration method. After the first problem  
with DMA, I used the Ghost image to roll things back to 4.1 then the  
second attempt I restored the ghost image and them restored bars. I  
just always made sure to have a BARS file just in case ghost flaked  
out since I'm sure Cisco doesn't officially support ghost in any way.

I didn't have any difficulties with it. It was no different than any  
other machine I'd used ghost with. It was just slow as hell when  
doing it on the machine directly. What I found out worked better was  
to put the drive into another computer to do the imaging. I used an  
external USB case hooked up to a different machine.

jeff


On Sep 17, 2007, at 11:36 AM, Scott Voll wrote:

> CM 4.1.... I pull a mirrored drive every couple months then do  
> nightly backups with BARS.  if something went wrong, restore the  
> mirror and recover from BARS is my plan.  But Thank God I've never  
> had to do it to this point. (knocking on wood ;-)
>
> Scott
>
>
> On 9/17/07, Cucumber Green <greencucumber2007 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Has anyone used Ghost to keep an image of your MCS servers in order  
> to use it in case of a server crash? If so, did it work, are there  
> any caveats, tips?
>
> If not using Ghost, whats your disaster recovery procedure to  
> restore an MCS crashed server ( other than a full reinstall ).
>
>
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