[cisco-voip] UCCE 8.5 Backup on MCS

[Matthew Saskin]

I've seen just about everything under the sun used.  Regardless of
solution, backups of the relevant registry hives and HDS DB don't require
anything being taken offline - I've got plenty of 24/7 operations in my
customer base that all back up without issues.  No real risk to backup
software grabbing a registry hive, and even then, this isn't something that
needs to be backed up regularly - for most environments a single registry
backup after install will do the trick unless there are constant changes
(eg; adding/removing PG's, etc.).  As for the AW/HDS or ADS/HDS/DDS, the
only real risk from a SQL backup is slow down of that particular database
instance, which may have an impact on running reports but won't impact the
actual operation of UCCE.

Matthew Saskin
msaskin at gmail.com
203-253-9571

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Ryan Burtch <rburtch3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Matt,
>
> I'm more asking about specific backup software. I know need to backup
> registry and HCS DB, but what software can I use to do that? Standard
> Windows Backup?
>
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ryan Burtch
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 9:25 PM, Matthew Saskin <msaskin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ryan -
>>
>> What specifically are they trying to back up?  For most environments, a
>> backup of the AW and HDS databases as well as specific registry hives from
>> all nodes is all that's needed to back up UCCE.  In practice, it's faster
>> to rebuild (eg; reinstall Windows, load saved registry hive) than to worry
>> about trying to do a system restore for an individual server.  Bear in mind
>> that in any production UCCE install you've got a minimum of 4 servers,
>> likely many more, each with different roles.  There is no concept of a
>> system-wide backup per se.
>>
>> -matthew
>> On Nov 9, 2014 10:01 PM, "Ryan Burtch" <rburtch3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a customer who is asking for a backup solution for UCCE 8.5(4) on
>>> MCS servers. The problem is that they are a 24/7 operation and want to
>>> minimize the downtime to the env.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can recommend to them?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Ryan Burtch
>>>
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