Re: [cisco-voip] recovery disk - what's it worth?

2018-08-23 Thread Lelio Fulgenzi 
Super! Thanks everyone!

It didn’t help that the PUT process reversed the PLM upgrade and recovery 
images for v11.5(1)SU2 on me today! I was very confused that the PLM recovery 
image from PUT was the exact same name and checksum as the upgrade file from 
CCO.

When I went to get the upgrade image from PUT for PLM, it was the recovery 
image. Yeesh.

I guess we should think about downloading and storing the recovery images for 
each of the applications.

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From: Ryan Huff 
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2018 1:10 PM
To: Charles Goldsmith 
Cc: Lelio Fulgenzi ; voyp list, cisco-voip 
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Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] recovery disk - what's it worth?

The recovery.iso is only good for a variety of boot/disk block and partition 
issues. It won’t help you if your DR was like  “UCS server xyz lost 2 disks 
in a RAID5”. That is an new VM build and a drs restore ... etc (not that other 
methods don’t exist *nods at Mr. Snapshot and Mr. clone*, but it is the only 
“fully supported” way).

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On Aug 23, 2018, at 12:37, Charles Goldsmith 
mailto:wo...@justfamily.org>> wrote:
Recovery disks are used when your CUCM won't boot or you can't login.  There is 
a file repair utility, as well as a password reset utility, plus something else 
I don't remember.  It has 4 options on the menu.  In the lab, I've also used it 
to get into the system as root and mount the partitions, used it to delete logs 
that were filling up from that nasty vmtools bug we had about a year ago.

You can probably mount that ISO into an empty VM and boot it to see it.

On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 10:43 AM Lelio Fulgenzi 
mailto:le...@uoguelph.ca>> wrote:

Our disaster recovery plan has always been boot with disk/ios image and restore 
from latest backup. We’ve tested this on a few occasions and it works well. 
Well, as good as documentation can be expected.

We typically try to do this as quickly as possible after an upgrade to ensure 
the bootables we have work and we have the appropriate inline upgrade ISO 
images. We get the bootables through PUT when required and the upgrades through 
CCO software downloads. We usually also try to get the bootables published by 
the TAC for us. For example, PUT only has v11.5(1)SU3b bootables, not SU4.

The question is… what scenarios are the recovery disks used for? Have people 
used those? Have they worked?

For some reason, I’m flashbacking to wordperfect recovery software that never 
recovered a single file. 😉



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Re: [cisco-voip] recovery disk - what's it worth?

2018-08-23 Thread Ryan Huff 
The recovery.iso is only good for a variety of boot/disk block and partition 
issues. It won’t help you if your DR was like  “UCS server xyz lost 2 disks 
in a RAID5”. That is an new VM build and a drs restore ... etc (not that other 
methods don’t exist *nods at Mr. Snapshot and Mr. clone*, but it is the only 
“fully supported” way).

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 23, 2018, at 12:37, Charles Goldsmith 
mailto:wo...@justfamily.org>> wrote:

Recovery disks are used when your CUCM won't boot or you can't login.  There is 
a file repair utility, as well as a password reset utility, plus something else 
I don't remember.  It has 4 options on the menu.  In the lab, I've also used it 
to get into the system as root and mount the partitions, used it to delete logs 
that were filling up from that nasty vmtools bug we had about a year ago.

You can probably mount that ISO into an empty VM and boot it to see it.

On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 10:43 AM Lelio Fulgenzi 
mailto:le...@uoguelph.ca>> wrote:

Our disaster recovery plan has always been boot with disk/ios image and restore 
from latest backup. We’ve tested this on a few occasions and it works well. 
Well, as good as documentation can be expected.

We typically try to do this as quickly as possible after an upgrade to ensure 
the bootables we have work and we have the appropriate inline upgrade ISO 
images. We get the bootables through PUT when required and the upgrades through 
CCO software downloads. We usually also try to get the bootables published by 
the TAC for us. For example, PUT only has v11.5(1)SU3b bootables, not SU4.

The question is… what scenarios are the recovery disks used for? Have people 
used those? Have they worked?

For some reason, I’m flashbacking to wordperfect recovery software that never 
recovered a single file. 😉



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Re: [cisco-voip] recovery disk - what's it worth?

2018-08-23 Thread UC Penguin 
Here is a walk through with screenshots:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/unified-communications/unified-communications-manager-callmanager/118948-technote-cucm-00.html

> On Aug 23, 2018, at 11:36, Charles Goldsmith  wrote:
> 
> Recovery disks are used when your CUCM won't boot or you can't login.  There 
> is a file repair utility, as well as a password reset utility, plus something 
> else I don't remember.  It has 4 options on the menu.  In the lab, I've also 
> used it to get into the system as root and mount the partitions, used it to 
> delete logs that were filling up from that nasty vmtools bug we had about a 
> year ago.
> 
> You can probably mount that ISO into an empty VM and boot it to see it.
> 
>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 10:43 AM Lelio Fulgenzi  wrote:
>> 
>> Our disaster recovery plan has always been boot with disk/ios image and 
>> restore from latest backup. We’ve tested this on a few occasions and it 
>> works well. Well, as good as documentation can be expected.
>> 
>> We typically try to do this as quickly as possible after an upgrade to 
>> ensure the bootables we have work and we have the appropriate inline upgrade 
>> ISO images. We get the bootables through PUT when required and the upgrades 
>> through CCO software downloads. We usually also try to get the bootables 
>> published by the TAC for us. For example, PUT only has v11.5(1)SU3b 
>> bootables, not SU4.
>> 
>> The question is… what scenarios are the recovery disks used for? Have people 
>> used those? Have they worked?
>> 
>> For some reason, I’m flashbacking to wordperfect recovery software that 
>> never recovered a single file. 😉
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> Computing and Communications Services | University of Guelph
>> Room 037 Animal Science & Nutrition Bldg | 50 Stone Rd E | Guelph, ON | N1G 
>> 2W1
>> 519-824-4120 Ext. 56354 | le...@uoguelph.ca
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Re: [cisco-voip] recovery disk - what's it worth?

2018-08-23 Thread Charles Goldsmith 
Recovery disks are used when your CUCM won't boot or you can't login.
There is a file repair utility, as well as a password reset utility, plus
something else I don't remember.  It has 4 options on the menu.  In the
lab, I've also used it to get into the system as root and mount the
partitions, used it to delete logs that were filling up from that nasty
vmtools bug we had about a year ago.

You can probably mount that ISO into an empty VM and boot it to see it.

On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 10:43 AM Lelio Fulgenzi  wrote:

>
> Our disaster recovery plan has always been boot with disk/ios image and
> restore from latest backup. We’ve tested this on a few occasions and it
> works well. Well, as good as documentation can be expected.
>
> We typically try to do this as quickly as possible after an upgrade to
> ensure the bootables we have work and we have the appropriate inline
> upgrade ISO images. We get the bootables through PUT when required and the
> upgrades through CCO software downloads. We usually also try to get the
> bootables published by the TAC for us. For example, PUT only has
> v11.5(1)SU3b bootables, not SU4.
>
> The question is… what scenarios are the recovery disks used for? Have
> people used those? Have they worked?
>
> For some reason, I’m flashbacking to wordperfect recovery software that
> never recovered a single file. 😉
>
>
>
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> Computing and Communications Services | University of Guelph
> Room 037 Animal Science & Nutrition Bldg | 50 Stone Rd E | Guelph, ON |
> N1G 2W1
> 519-824-4120 Ext. 56354 <(519)%20824-4120> | le...@uoguelph.ca le...@uoguelph.ca>
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[cisco-voip] recovery disk - what's it worth?

2018-08-23 Thread Lelio Fulgenzi 

Our disaster recovery plan has always been boot with disk/ios image and restore 
from latest backup. We’ve tested this on a few occasions and it works well. 
Well, as good as documentation can be expected.

We typically try to do this as quickly as possible after an upgrade to ensure 
the bootables we have work and we have the appropriate inline upgrade ISO 
images. We get the bootables through PUT when required and the upgrades through 
CCO software downloads. We usually also try to get the bootables published by 
the TAC for us. For example, PUT only has v11.5(1)SU3b bootables, not SU4.

The question is… what scenarios are the recovery disks used for? Have people 
used those? Have they worked?

For some reason, I’m flashbacking to wordperfect recovery software that never 
recovered a single file. 😉



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Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A. | Senior Analyst
Computing and Communications Services | University of Guelph
Room 037 Animal Science & Nutrition Bldg | 50 Stone Rd E | Guelph, ON | N1G 2W1
519-824-4120 Ext. 56354 | le...@uoguelph.ca

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