Cisco Systems Effective Cisco Unity Backup and Disaster Recovery Tools: COBRAS and DRS

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Backing Up and Restoring Cisco Unity

Connection Components

You must take the backup of Cisco Unity Connection components to avoid loosing any data or messages. The following are the tools supported for taking the backup or restoring the Unity Connection components:

•COBRAS, see the About COBRAS, page 2-1section.

•Disaster Recovery System, see the About Disaster Recovery System, page 2-1section.

About COBRAS

Cisco Unified Backup and Restore Application Suite (COBRAS) is an application used to migrate data and messages. You can take the backup using Export tool and restore the backup data using Import tool.

For more information, download the latest version of COBRAS, and view the training videos and Help at http://www.ciscounitytools.com/Applications/General/COBRAS/COBRAS.html.

About Disaster Recovery System

The Disaster Recovery System (DRS) is web application that enables you to take the full backup of Unity Connection server components to remote locations using File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP).

You can take the backup of the following Unity Connection server components:

•Unity Connection configuration database

•Mailbox messages

•User greetings and recorded names

•Other server and platform components

DRS also provides a restore wizard that enables you to restore the Unity Connection server components from a backup file stored on an FTP or SFTP server.

Note You must configure the Unity Connection server with the settings similar to the server of which backup was taken before you can restore the software components.

Install, Upgrade, and Maintenance Guide for Cisco Unity Connection Release 10.x

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