System Backup Procedure - Cisco BTS 10200 Troubleshooting Manual

Chapter 17 Disk Replacement
Call Agent/Feature Server Backup
Perform the following steps on the standby CA/FS system.
Login as root on secondary CA/FS.
Step 1
Verify that all platforms are in STANDBY mode.
Step 2
<hostname>#nodestat
Remove all unnecessary files or directories such as: /opt/Build, application tar files, etc...
Step 3
Mount NFS server to /mnt directory.
Step 4
<hostname>#mount <nfs server ip or hostname>:/<share dire> /mnt
Step 5 Stop all platforms.
<hostname>#platform stop all
Step 6 Save all platforms data directory (shared memory) to nfs server.
<hostname>#tar –cf - /opt/OptiCall/CAxxx/bin/data |gzip –fast - >
/mnt/data.<hostname>.CA.gz
<hostname>#tar –cf - /opt/OptiCall/FSAINxxx/bin/data |gzip –fast - >
/mnt/data.<hostname>.FSAIN.gz
<hostname>#tar –cf /opt/OptiCall/FSPTCxxx/bin/data |gzip –fast - >
/mnt/data.<hostname>.FSPTC.gz
Where xxx is the instance number.
Note
Start all platforms.
Step 7
<hostname>#platform start -nocopy
Verify all platforms are up on STANDBY.
Step 8
<hostname>#nodestat
Step 9 Create excluded directories file for flash archive.
<hostname>#vi /tmp/excluded_dir/opt/OptiCall/CAxxx/bin/data
<hostname>#vi /tmp/excluded_dir/opt/OptiCall/CAxxx/bin/logs
<hostname>#vi /tmp/excluded_dir/opt/OptiCall/FSAINxxx/bin/data
<hostname>#vi /tmp/excluded_dir/opt/OptiCall/FSAINxxx/bin/logs
<hostname>#vi /tmp/excluded_dir/opt/OptiCall/FSPTCxxx/bin/data
<hostname>#vi /tmp/excluded_dir/opt/OptiCall/FSPTCxxxx/bin/logs
<hostname>#vi /tmp/excluded_dir/opt/Build
Where xxx is the instance number.
Note
Backup the system.
Step 10
<hostname>#mv /bin/date /bin/date.archive
<hostname>#mv /bin/.date /bin/date
<hostname>#flarcreate –n <hostname> -I -X /tmp/excluded_dir –c /mnt/<hostname>.archive
<hostname>#mv /bin/date /bin/.date
<hostname>#mv /bin/date.archive /bin/date
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Cisco BTS 10200 Softswitch Troubleshooting Guide, Release 5.0.x

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