Copying Zone Sets; About Backing Up And Restoring Zones - Cisco AP775A - Nexus Converged Network Switch 5010 Configuration Manual

Zone Set Duplication
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Copying Zone Sets

On the Cisco MDS Family switches, you cannot edit an active zone set. However, you can copy an active
zone set to create a new zone set that you can edit.
To make a copy of a zone set using Fabric Manager, follow these steps:
Choose Edit > Copy Full Zone Database.
Step 1
You see the Copy Full Zone Database dialog box
Figure 30-30
Step 2 Click the Active or the Full radio button, depending on which type of database you want to copy.
Step 3 Select the source VSAN from the drop-down list.
Step 4 If you selected Copy Full, select the source switch and the destination VSAN from those drop-down
lists.
Step 5 Select the destination switch from the drop-down list.
Step 6 Click Copy to copy the database.
If the Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR) feature is enabled and if IVR zones exist in the active zone set, then a
Caution
zone set copy operation copies all the IVR zones to the full zone database. To prevent copying to the IVR
zones, you must explicitly remove them from the full zone set database before performing the copy
operation. Refer to the
feature.

About Backing Up and Restoring Zones

You can back up the zone configuration to a workstation using TFTP. This zone backup file can then be
used to restore the zone configuration on a switch. Restoring the zone configuration overwrites any
existing zone configuration on a switch.
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide
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Migrating a Non-MDS Database, page 30-35
Clearing the Zone Server Database, page 30-36
Copy Full Zone Database Dialog Box
Chapter 29, "Configuring Inter-VSAN Routing"
Chapter 30 Configuring and Managing Zones
(Figure 30-30).
for more information on the IVR
OL-17256-03, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.x