Cisco Systems 3.3 Creating a Cisco Secure ACS Database Dump File

Appendix D CSUtil Database Utility
Creating a Cisco Secure ACS Database Dump File
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Creating a Cisco Secure ACS Database Dump File
You can use the -d option to dump all contents of the CiscoSecure user database
into a text file. This provides a thorough and compressible backup of all
Cisco Secure ACS internal data.
Using the -l option, you can reload the Cisco Secure ACS internal data from a
dump file created by the -d option. For more information about the -l option, see
Loading the Cisco Secure ACS Database from a Dump File, page D-11.
Note Using the -d option requires that you stop the CSAuth service. While CSAuth is
stopped, no users are authenticated.
To dump all Cisco Secure ACS internal data into a text file, 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 If the CSAuth service is running, type:
net stop csauth
and press Enter.
The CSAuth service stops.
Step 3 Type:
CSUtil.exe -d
and press Enter.
CSUtil.exe displays a confirmation prompt.
Step 4 To confirm that you want to dump all Cisco Secure ACS internal data into
dump.txt, type Y and press Enter.
CSUtil.exe creates the dump.txt file. This process may take a few minutes.