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

[Adam Frankel]

You should be ok using the same version of BARS or later.  Best to use 
the same version if it is available.

Adam

-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Restoring 4.1(3)sr5d Publisher?
From: Dane <dane at pktloss.net>
To: Cisco VOIP <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>, Wes Sisk <wsisk at cisco.com>
Date: 9/30/09 2:40 PM

Good to know, thanks Wes.


Oh and I just found that if you open up the backup tar file and go to:

\STI\Backup

You can view the Backup.log file.  In the log file it states the
version of BARS.  In my case it is:

*          CISCO IP TELEPHONY APPLICATION BACKUP UTILITY 
        *
* 
        *
*          Name       : Backup And Restore System 
        *
* 
        *
*          Purpose    : Backup log 
        *
* 
        *
*          Version    : 4.0.11000


Got my answer and downloaded the version from CCO.  More progress
slowly but surely.



On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Wes Sisk <wsisk at cisco.com> wrote:
Most versions of BARS are compatible but it is best practice to backup and
restore with the same BARs version.

/Wes

On Wednesday, September 30, 2009 2:07:11 PM, Dane <dane at pktloss.net> wrote:

Yup unplugging cable doesn't work.  Installs detect and don't even
allow you to move forward with the cable unplugged.

I ended up hooking it up to a hub with nothing else connected.  I
suppose a loopback would have worked too.

Made lots of progress I think.  Everything is back to the correct
version it was prior to the failure.  Only issue now is BARS

I thought BARS was one of the plugins in CM and you just installed the
latest based on what was on the CM.  However it seems this is not the
case.

Is there any concern with regards to the version of BARS you install?
It's not installed on the sub obviously so I can't look at it there to
find out the version.

Thanks for help so far, and yes I did get another TAC engineer
involved just for reassurance.  All is well I think.





On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Wes Sisk <wsisk at cisco.com> wrote:


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.

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----- 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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