[cisco-voip] DRS Backups - File & Database Record Extraction

[Pete Brown]

That's pretty slick!  Well commented, too.  Thanks for sharing.


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From: Anthony Holloway <avholloway+cisco-voip at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2017 3:51 PM
To: Pete Brown
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] DRS Backups - File & Database Record Extraction

This is a good time to remind people that they could use automation tools to download the scripts and prompts outside of DRS all together.

https://twitter.com/avholloway45633/status/647450649353846784<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Favholloway45633%2Fstatus%2F647450649353846784&data=02%7C01%7Cjpb%40chykn.com%7Ccc35bed198fc4207df0208d52e0571dd%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636465523268451660&sdata=%2BllY11qUDZiGIa%2BEzdEQRa7WI0nEYzr70XhFV7r3QWk%3D&reserved=0>

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 1:17 PM Pete Brown <jpb at chykn.com<mailto:jpb at chykn.com>> wrote:
An update for those who have asked about extracting database records directly from DRS backups.  I've had some success reading BLOB data from Informix ontape files, so we can read flat files from the TARs as well as files stored as BLOB fields in Informix.  It's working well enough to extract prompt & script files from a sample UCCX 9 backup.  Definitely not stable enough to release, but it's getting there.

The next step is to design an interface which allows users to open DRS backups and browse the contents.  Think DRS Message Fisher, but for reading UCCX and CUCM backups as well.  Since the tools are free and I can't exactly afford a design team, this is where I could use some assistance from the community.

Please let me know if you're interested in providing some creative input on a UI.  Have an idea about how you'd want to browse and extract data?  Put it in a Visio.  Sketch it out in MS Paint.  Scribble it on a napkin.  Whatever works.  Have some C# experience and want to create a mockup?  Bless you.  One day you'll be an unsung hero to some poor soul who accidentally overwrites the wrong script in UCCX and relies on your work to save their bacon.

Thanks,
Pete
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