[cisco-voip] Restoring 4.1(3)sr5d Publisher?

[Wes Sisk]

Oh, and this only applies to CM 4.x.  CM5.x and later changes all the rules.

/Wes

On Wednesday, September 30, 2009 2:13:41 PM, Wes Sisk <wsisk at cisco.com> 
wrote:
> yep.  something that keeps L1/L2/L3 up and lets the server use the IP 
> bound to the ethernet interface.  If you use DHCP that clearly 
> introduces other limitations.
>
> /wes
>
> On Wednesday, September 30, 2009 2:08:05 PM, Lelio Fulgenzi 
> <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
>> so, changing the VLAN on the switch is good enough?
>>
>> ---
>> Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.
>> Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1
>> (519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX (JNHN)
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Wes Sisk" <wsisk at cisco.com>
>> To: "Lelio Fulgenzi" <lelio at uoguelph.ca>
>> Cc: "Dane" <dane at pktloss.net>, cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 1:35:00 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada 
>> Eastern
>> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Restoring 4.1(3)sr5d Publisher?
>>
>> If TAC engineer is not familiar then yes, please do escalate. It is 
>> still supported and this knowledge is still available to help you.
>>
>> Otherwise -
>> it is good to install and upgrade the publisher offline.  It is not 
>> good to take the publisher offline by simply unplugging the network 
>> cable. That takes down the IP interface and causes numerous problems 
>> with installs and upgrades.
>>
>> /Wes
>>
>> On Wednesday, September 30, 2009 11:40:55 AM, Lelio Fulgenzi 
>> <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
>>
>>     Your process is what I would do. Get it running to the version
>>     you have now offline and then once you have restored everything
>>     from backup shut down the publisher, plug it in and then restart
>>     it. once it is restarted, you will have to restart the TFTP
>>     server and other subscribers.
>>
>>     Hopefully you don't have to republish the databases. But if you
>>     do, you can use the dbhelper tool to do that.
>>
>>     Hopefully others will help.
>>
>>     P.S. If your TAC engineer is not familiar with 4.1, then I would
>>     ask to have the case escalated to someone who has 4.1 experience.
>>
>>     ---
>>     Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.
>>     Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1
>>     (519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX (JNHN)
>>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>     "Bad grammar makes me [sic]" - Tshirt
>>
>>
>>     ----- Original Message -----
>>     From: "Dane" <dane at pktloss.net>
>>     To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
>>     Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 11:21:46 AM GMT -05:00
>>     US/Canada Eastern
>>     Subject: [cisco-voip] Restoring 4.1(3)sr5d Publisher?
>>
>>     We had a drive fail on our publisher and had someone swap it out last
>>     night.  Well it seems they made a couple of mistakes and left me no
>>     option but having to rebuild and restore now.
>>
>>     Were running 4.1(3)sr5d and have a current BARS backup.
>>
>>     Problem is all the media we have is some what old so I am having to
>>     install and upgrade and upgrade and upgrade to get back to where we
>>     were.
>>
>>     My concern centers around the fact that this is the publisher that is
>>     down and having to be rebuilt using older media and then upgrading to
>>     get back to the point we were.  Is there a risk in corrupting or
>>     interrupting the subscriber that is currently operational and running
>>     everything?  I am afraid of the publisher coming back online too
>>     early
>>     during the process and somehow overwriting information on the
>>     subscriber before the publisher is fully built.
>>
>>     My TAC engineer isn't familiar with the 4.1 release and windows side
>>     of things.  Currently the plan he suggests based on the media we have
>>     available is to install 4.0.2 (from media) offline (unplug cable),
>>     then upgrade it to 4.1(3), then upgrade to 4.1(3)sr5d, then install
>>     BARS from that version of CM and do the restore of the BARS backup
>>     data.
>>
>>     Does this sound right to others?
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