Cisco Systems 10.x manual Configuring DRS Backup, To Configure a DRS Backup

Chapter 2 Backing Up and Restoring Cisco Unity Connection Components

About Disaster Recovery System

•Whether the number of .tar backup files should exceed the total number of backups you defined for the backup device.

•The .tar backup file to erase.

Caution DRS encrypts the .tar backup files using the security password configured during the installation of Unity Connection server. If you decide to change this password, perform a full DRS backup immediately. You must use the same security password on the replacement server when performing a restore operation.

Configuring DRS Backup

Note In a cluster deployment, you need to take the backup of publisher server only.

To Configure a DRS Backup

Step 1 Set up and configure the FTP or SFTP server(s) used for storing the backups.

A number of SFTP applications, such as FreeFTPd and Core FTP mini SFTP server are available that can be used to store and retrieve the backups.

To configure the FTP or SFTP server, you must define the directory that stores the backup and create an account that DRS can use to store and retrieve the backups.

Note Make sure there is enough capacity in the directory for the required number and size of backups. Keep in mind that the size of the backups will increase as the organization grows.

Step 2 Configure a backup device in DRS.

Each DRS backup device consists of the backup location, the FTP or SFTP account credentials, and the total number of backups that can be stored at the backup location. When the total number of allowed backups is reached, DRS overwrites the oldest backup on the server.

Follow the given steps to configure a backup device:

a.Sign in to Disaster Recovery System and login using the same administrator username and password that you use for Cisco Unified Operating System Administration.

b.Select Backup> Backup Device. The Backup Device window displays. Select Add New.

c.Enter the backup device name, network configuration information and the number of backups to store on network directory.

d.Select Save to create the backup device.

Note Depending on the backup policy and organization, it is advisable to create multiple backup devices for redundancy. If the organization consists of multiple locations, each location should have its own set of backup devices.

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