[cisco-voip] recovery disk - what's it worth?

[Ryan Huff]

The recovery.iso is only good for a variety of boot/disk block and partition issues. It won’t help you if your DR was like .... “UCS server xyz lost 2 disks in a RAID5”. That is an new VM build and a drs restore ... etc (not that other methods don’t exist *nods at Mr. Snapshot and Mr. clone*, but it is the only “fully supported” way).

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 23, 2018, at 12:37, Charles Goldsmith <wokka at justfamily.org<mailto:wokka at justfamily.org>> wrote:

Recovery disks are used when your CUCM won't boot or you can't login.  There is a file repair utility, as well as a password reset utility, plus something else I don't remember.  It has 4 options on the menu.  In the lab, I've also used it to get into the system as root and mount the partitions, used it to delete logs that were filling up from that nasty vmtools bug we had about a year ago.

You can probably mount that ISO into an empty VM and boot it to see it.

On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 10:43 AM Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca<mailto:lelio at uoguelph.ca>> wrote:

Our disaster recovery plan has always been boot with disk/ios image and restore from latest backup. We’ve tested this on a few occasions and it works well. Well, as good as documentation can be expected.

We typically try to do this as quickly as possible after an upgrade to ensure the bootables we have work and we have the appropriate inline upgrade ISO images. We get the bootables through PUT when required and the upgrades through CCO software downloads. We usually also try to get the bootables published by the TAC for us. For example, PUT only has v11.5(1)SU3b bootables, not SU4.

The question is… what scenarios are the recovery disks used for? Have people used those? Have they worked?

For some reason, I’m flashbacking to wordperfect recovery software that never recovered a single file. 😉



---
Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A. | Senior Analyst
Computing and Communications Services | University of Guelph
Room 037 Animal Science & Nutrition Bldg | 50 Stone Rd E | Guelph, ON | N1G 2W1
519-824-4120 Ext. 56354<tel:(519)%20824-4120> | lelio at uoguelph.ca<mailto:lelio at uoguelph.ca><mailto:lelio at uoguelph.ca<mailto:lelio at uoguelph.ca>>

www.uoguelph.ca/ccs<http://www.uoguelph.ca/ccs><http://www.uoguelph.ca/ccs> | @UofGCCS on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook

[University of Guelph Cornerstone with Improve Life tagline]

_______________________________________________
cisco-voip mailing list
cisco-voip at puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip
_______________________________________________
cisco-voip mailing list
cisco-voip at puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-voip/attachments/20180823/075ae3d0/attachment.html>