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

[Lelio Fulgenzi]

Yeah, fair enough, files are not database entries. But restoring a subscriber only from a backup that could be up to 23 hours out of date would make the database out of sync, irregardless, so some sort of resync still has to happen. 

I'll have to read up on the PDF some more. 

Thanks Ed. 

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On Mar 3, 2011, at 8:07 PM, Ed Leatherman <ealeatherman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm totally guessing here, but maybe its partly to cover any MOH or
> other files you have on the particular server, and partly to make sure
> the database keys already all match up so there is less work on the
> pub wrt db replication. If you added the sub as a new server, wouldn't
> that cause a lot of updates across the cluster when you go to add it
> back into a CM group, mrg, etc?
> 
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
>> 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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>> Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.
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>> ________________________________
>> 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?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ---
>>> Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.
>>> Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1
>>> (519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX (JNHN)
>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> Cooking with unix is easy. You just sed it and forget it.
>>>                               - LFJ (with apologies to Mr. Popeil)
>>> 
>>> 
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