Cisco Systems 10200 Backing Up the Full BTS, Backing Up the CA/FS, Pre-Provisioning Checklist

Chapter 3 Monitoring and Backing Up the BTS

Exporting Provisioned Data

Caution If the result is not“All tables are OK”, stop and contact Cisco TAC.

Backing Up the Full BTS

Do this before and after software upgrades or as routine, always during a maintenance window. Before starting the provisioning process ensure you have the following:

Pre-Provisioning Checklist

NFS server hostname or ip address

Shared directory from NFS server

Root user access

Provisioning blocked

Backing Up the CA/FS

Perform the following steps to back up the secondary CA/FS. Then repeat the procedure on the primary CA/FS.

Step 1 Log in as root on the secondary CA/FS.

Step 2 Verify all platforms are in STANDBY mode, enter <hostname>#nodestat.

Step 3 Remove unnecessary files or directories like /opt/Build and application tar files.

Step 4 Mount the NFS server to the /mnt directory, enter <hostname>#mount <nfs server ip or hostname>:/<share dire> /mnt.

Step 5 Stop all platforms; enter <hostname>#platform stop all.

Step 6 Save all platforms data directory (shared memory) to nfs server

<hostname>#tar -cf - /opt/OptiCall/CAxxx/bin/data gzip -fast - > /mnt/data.<hostname>.CA <<hostname>#tar -cf - /opt/OptiCall/CAxxx/bin/data gzip --fast - > /mnt/data.<hostname>.CA.gz

<hostname>#tar -cf - /opt/OptiCall/FSAINxxx/bin/data gzip --fast - > /mnt/data.<hostname>.FSAIN.gz

<hostname>#tar -cf /opt/OptiCall/FSPTCxxx/bin/data gzip --fast - > /mnt/data.<hostname>.FSPTC.gz

where xxx is the instance number

Step 7 Start all platforms by entering <hostname>#platform start.

Step 8 Verify all platforms are in STANDBY mode, enter <hostname>#nodestat.

Step 9 Create an excluded directories file for the flash archive, enter:

<hostname>#vi /tmp/excluded_dir /opt/OptiCall/CAxxx/bin/data

/opt/OptiCall/CAxxx/bin/logs

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