Backup PBX Translations using ASA

[winnytek]

Over a year ago, one of the AVAYA Techs backed up our entire G3SI PBX (all translations) to a file using ASA and loaded the file onto a new Prologix that we installed at another location. He told me that it was a great tool for Disaster Recovery or if something happens to your Flash Cards. Does anyone know how to do this using ASA ? I never got a chance to document how he did it.

 

[schned99]

You can't do it with ASA. You can only do it with ProVision, an application only available to Avaya employess and Business Partners. I work for a Business Partner and hve Provision. It's really great.

 

[green6]

You can do it with any comm program that lets you "save to" a file.
The trick is getting the higher level login to the Definity that gives you access to the "upload" command. I think you need "craft" at a minimum.

There are a lot of cool commands that the average user doesn't have access to.

 

[telcoguy]

You can do it with ASA no problem, only just not in one go.
It can save you a lot of time doing installs though.
Just make exports of one switch and output them into a delimited file.
You can reverse the process, by importing the same file into another.
You have to do this item by item however, so you have to create a station,cor,agent,cov-p,trunk file etc.
In case of a recovery it sure beats re-typing.
If your switch gets a default config load from avaya after a disaster, I'd say you'd be able recover about 85% of your configs this way.


Hope this helps,

Rob

 

[winnytek]

Thanks to all for your responses. Wish I had that ProVision, but I'll go ahead and do some exports using the ASA software. This way I'll at least have a good portion of the backup.

 

[BIS]

Quick question - doesn't a save translation - back disk full do the same? You then have it on tape / optical disk ?

 

[CommDude]

BIS... yes, but this requires access to the physical media if you want to move it offsite or use a previous backup for data restoration. Most of my personal experience is remote administration which makes things like backup/recovery somewhat problematic and introduces a great dependency on a local presence. Using ASA exports & reports are a way to create local backups of some data (exports do NOT backup all data by any means).

I'm looking forward to introducing S8700... this enables full backups to an FTP server!!! You can use the FTP backup to restore to the primary S8700 or a standby S8700 in a different site. Not a bad disaster recovery capability... not as good as a hot standby (enter S8500 later this year), but not not bad.

 

[BIS]

didn't think of that, I am on-site dude...
thanks for clearing that up.