I installed PUB and SUB then shutdown both servers and copied them with Windows Explorer (using VMWare workstation for Windows) to an external USB drive. To restore, copy BOTH back. I do the same for the other servers. Copy clean configs for all at the same time.
I stay away from snapshotting just to make the restore a little cleaner. Takes about 1/2 hour to copy back PUB, SUB, IPCC, my AD server (not needed yet), UC, CUP. You can start it and go to bed. I also don't do a pause in VMWare. Used to with CCM4.1, etc. In 7.0 it seems to not want to sync NTP time up as quickly ________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joel Jose [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 8:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [OSL | CCIE_Voice] clone vs snapshot vs any better method?? i am so sick and tired with this... the main problem for which i thot vmware had a solution is still stinking me... how do i do a proper backup and restore?? i mena i have pub and sub... my pub had a db connectivity error(due to an abrupt power failure)...sub was fine... i had already cloned all my vmwares into another backupdir.. so i copied the pub clone and thot i was done... first of all.. the db wipes clean.. yeah..yeah..obviously.. but now i cant even find the sub as an available node for my cucm-group.. however all sub configurations can be changed and is reflected on the pub gui itself... yes i have cross checked the serviceablity for both nodes and thats fine.... my backup strat is pretty boring i know.. i still havent figured what the snapshots do... if anyone can suggest a better way to backup my servers it would be great.. my head is spinning on the thoughts of a cucm reinstall from dvd... even a quadcore q9550 with 8gb ram has its limits on sluggish algorithms(redhat-cisco-installation-scripts) u see ;( . -- "it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." Abraham Lincoln
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