Backing Up And Restoring Vcs Data; Creating A Backup - Cisco TelePresence Administrator's Manual

Backing up and restoring VCS data

The Backup and restore
files of your VCS data.
You are recommended to create a backup in the following situations:
before performing an upgrade
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before performing a system restore
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in demonstration and test environments if you want to be able to restore the VCS to a known configuration
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Limitations
Backups can only be restored to a VCS running the same version of software from which the backup was
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made.
You can create a backup on one VCS and restore it to a different VCS, for example if the original system
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has failed. However, before performing the restore you must install on the new system the same set of
option keys that were installed on the old system. If you attempt to restore a backup made on a different
VCS, you will receive a warning message, but you will be allowed to continue.
Backups should not be used to copy data between VCSs.
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Note: you are recommended to take the VCS unit out of service before performing a restore.
For extra information about backing up and restoring peers in a cluster, see the
restore section.

Creating a backup

To create a backup of the VCS's system data:
1. Go to the Backup and restore
2. Optionally, enter an Encryption password with which to encrypt the backup file.
If a password is specified, the same password will be required to restore the file.
3. Click Create system backup file.
4. After the backup file has been prepared, a pop-up window appears and prompts you to save the file (the
exact wording depends on your browser). The default name is in the format:
<hardware serial number>_<date>_<time>_backup.tar.gz.
(The file extension is normally .tar.gz.enc if an encryption password is specified. However, if you use
Internet Explorer to create an encrypted backup file, the filename extension will be .tar.gz.gz by default.
These different filename extensions have no operational impact; you can create and restore encrypted
backup files using any supported browser.)
Note that the preparation of the system backup file may take several minutes. Do not navigate away from
this page while the file is being prepared.
5. Save the file to a designated location.
Note that log files are not included in the system backup file.
Legacy TMS Agent database
Cisco VCS Administrator Guide (X7.2)
page (Maintenance > Backup and
page (Maintenance > Backup and
restore) is used to create and restore backup
Cluster upgrades, backup and
restore).
Maintenance
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