Cisco Systems 3.3 Restoring Cisco Secure ACS with CSUtil.exe

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Appendix D CSUtil Database Utility

Restoring Cisco Secure ACS with CSUtil.exe

You can use the -r option to restore all Cisco Secure ACS internal data. The

backup file from which you restore Cisco Secure ACS can be one generated by

the CSUtil.exe -b option or by the ACS Backup feature in the HTML interface.

Cisco Secure ACS backup files contain two types of data:

•User and group data.

•System configuration.

You can restore either user and group data or system configuration, or both. For

more information about the ACS Backup feature, see Cisco Secure ACS Backup,

page 8-9.

Note During the restoration, all services are automatically stopped and restarted. No

users are authenticated while the restoration is occurring.

To restore Cisco Secure ACS with CSUtil.exe, follow these steps:

Step 1 On the computer running Cisco Secure ACS, open an MS DOS command prompt

and change directories to the directory containing CSUtil.exe. For more

information about the location of CSUtil.exe, see Location of CSUtil.exe and

Related Files, page D-2.

Step 2 Perform one of the following:

•To restore all data (user and group data, and system configuration), type:

CSUtil.exe -r all filename

where filename is the name of the backup file. Press Enter.

•To restore only user and group data, type:

CSUtil.exe -r users filename

where filename is the name of the backup file. Press Enter.