[cisco-voip] backup strategy - pub and tftp? (V7)

[Lelio Fulgenzi]

Thanks Ed. After running the actual backup, it answered a lot of my questions. You enable the backup on the publisher and it backs up everything. Which is kinda cool. Depending on your situation, you pick the restore mechanism you need. 

Aside from the TFTP server though, I'm still not understanding why you would need to "restore" a sub. Shouldn't everything be stored in the databases and pushed out to the subs as the database gets replicated? 



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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Leatherman" <ealeatherman at gmail.com> 
To: "Lelio Fulgenzi" <lelio at uoguelph.ca> 
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net 
Sent: Thursday, March 3, 2011 10:40:08 AM 
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] backup strategy - pub and tftp? (V7) 

I've restored my cluster in the lab by installing each node and then 
using DRS to restore from backup, starting with pub (obviously), then 
tftp, then the subs. Is there a benefit to adding them as a new sub 
versus restoring from backup? One of my subs is also a secondary TFTP 
server so I would probably restore that one from the backup also even 
if I re-added other subs from scratch. 

Every time i've replaced a sub (hardware replacement), I've installed 
CM on the new server and then restored the DRS backup to that sub, 
seems to work out just fine. 

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote: 
> Just wondering what people's strategy for backups are. We have a pub, a 
> dedicated TFTP server and four subs. In the past I believe the recommended 
> approach was to recover the pub from backup and rebuild subs from scratch. 
> Having the TFTP server backed up though would allow us to ensure our TFTP 
> directories are populated correctly. 
> 
> What are others doing? Are you simply backing up the pub and ensuring you 
> have all the files necessary to repopulate the TFTP server? 
> 
> 
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> Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A. 
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