Restoring Cisco Secure Acs With Csutil.exe - Cisco 3.3 User Manual

Appendix D CSUtil Database Utility

Restoring Cisco Secure ACS with CSUtil.exe

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You can use the -r option to restore all Cisco Secure ACS internal data. The
backup file from which you restore Cisco Secure ACS can be one generated by
the CSUtil.exe -b option or by the ACS Backup feature in the HTML interface.
Cisco Secure ACS backup files contain two types of data:
User and group data.
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System configuration.
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You can restore either user and group data or system configuration, or both. For
more information about the ACS Backup feature, see
page 8-9.
During the restoration, all services are automatically stopped and restarted. No
users are authenticated while the restoration is occurring.
To restore Cisco Secure ACS with CSUtil.exe, follow these steps:
On the computer running Cisco Secure ACS, open an MS DOS command prompt
and change directories to the directory containing CSUtil.exe. For more
information about the location of CSUtil.exe, see
Related Files, page D-2.
Perform one of the following:
To restore all data (user and group data, and system configuration), type:
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CSUtil.exe -r all
where filename is the name of the backup file. Press Enter.
To restore only user and group data, type:
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CSUtil.exe -r users
where filename is the name of the backup file. Press Enter.
Restoring Cisco Secure ACS with CSUtil.exe
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User Guide for Cisco Secure ACS for Windows Server
Cisco Secure ACS Backup,
Location of CSUtil.exe and
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