backups on s8720 servers

[jgreen17]

I want to schedule my servers to backup the active and standby servers to a local flash drive. I was going to set up both servers with the following options.
1)Specify data sets
2)Avaya call processing (acp) translations
3)Do not save ACP translations prior to backup (this is done with maint at 10Pm every evening)
4)Backup method Local compact flash card
5)retain 9 data sets
6)Days of the week everyday at 3:10 am

how many days will this save ( 3? ) for a total of 9 data sets ?
can I specify more than 9 data sets ?
would I be better having it just do the translations every night?
or should I do a full backup and have it save 9 days worth?
Thanks for any suggestions

 

[jgreen17]

UPDATED MISSED A COUPLE ITEMS ON ORIGINAL POST

I want to schedule my servers to backup the active and standby servers to a local flash drive. I was going to set up both servers with the following options.
1)Specify data sets
2)Avaya call processing (acp) translations
3)Server and System files
4)Security Files
5)Do not save ACP translations prior to backup (this is done with maint at 10Pm every evening)
6)Backup method Local compact flash card
7)retain 9 data sets
8)Days of the week everyday at 3:10 am

how many days will this save ( 3? )
can I specify more than 9 data sets ?
would I be better having it just do the translations every night?
or should I do a full backup and have it save 9 days worth?
Thanks for any suggestions

 

[4merAvaya]

Both servers should not be scheduled at the same time. Spread them out by an hour. The CM typically does a 'save translations' around 10:00 PM daily. You can check the list histry to see if it is being done.

I've been told that in the event that you need to restore data, it is easier to do if you use the individual backup files instead of the full backup.

You can check the success of the flash drive backup through the web interface and selecting the Backup Logs link.

I don't think you want/need a backup data that is more than a few days old.

You can always purchase additional flars cards and rotate them if you want.

Kevin

 

[AvayaTier3]

Server backups take under a minute for flash cards and it's about the same to use
ftp, sftp, scp backups to a network file server.

full backups contain separate backups that contain separate security, os, xln
that can be used to restore individually.

You can run a backup from linux CLI which will build backup archives on your hard disk.
The following command will take under a minute for the largest of switches.

Backup to server hard disk:
sudo backup -b -d /var/home/ftp/pub --verbose -- security os xln

Backup to server USB Flash card drive:
sudo backup -b -d /mnt/flash --verbose security os xln

You can do these hard drive and USB Flash card backups to see what your system's
file sizes will be. The Flash cards are generally 128MB and you can use this to
figure out how many backups a Flash card with hold.

Not shown in the following examples is the file sizes of IA770 and CMM voice messaging
backups. These are very large compared to security, os, xln backups. One voice messaging
backup may be larger than your 128MB Flash card.

Remember that ftp backups are much more reliable and the amount of backups you can
store and how old they are are only limited by the network file server / user limits.
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# USB flash card on s8710

dadmin@8710-a> sudo mount -t ext2 /dev/sda /mnt/flash
dadmin@8710-a> mount
/dev/cciss/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/cciss/sda6 on /root2 type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,noatime)
/dev/cciss/sda5 on /var type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,noatime)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
/dev/sda on /mnt/flash type ext2 (rw)

dadmin@8710-a> df -h /mnt/flash
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda119M 7.3M 106M 7% /mnt/flash
dadmin@8710-a> ls -lh /mnt/flash
total 5.8M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 917K Mar 26 2010 full_8710-a_083744_20100326.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 904K Feb 2 2010 full_8710-a_084514_20100202.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 898K Dec 9 2009 full_8710-a_184534_20091209.tar.gz
drwx------ 2 root root 12K Sep 14 2007 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16K Feb 27 02:00 os_8710-a_020004_20110227.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16K Feb 28 02:00 os_8710-a_020004_20110228.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16K Mar 1 02:00 os_8710-a_020004_20110301.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15K Feb 27 02:00 security_8710-a_020007_20110227.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15K Feb 28 02:00 security_8710-a_020007_20110228.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15K Mar 1 02:00 security_8710-a_020016_20110301.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1018K Feb 27 02:00 xln_8710-a_020001_20110227.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1018K Feb 28 02:00 xln_8710-a_020001_20110228.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1017K Mar 1 02:00 xln_8710-a_020001_20110301.tar.gz
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s8300C Backup to hard disk

dadmin@s8300> sudo backup -b -d /var/home/ftp/pub --verbose -- security os security
fileset name - /etc/opt/ecs/backup//security_ds.conf
NOSPOOL 0, NOLOCK 0, DYNAMIC_LIST 1

backup: Executing pre_bkup: /etc/opt/ecs/backup/bkup_proc -d /var/tmp/bkup/security_s8300_143111_20130
125.parm -t prebackup security

backup: Reading dynamic file list for security
backup: copying files to tmp dir

/etc/opt/ecs/backup//.total_bkp : entry added
Updating MGP NVRAM with backup location information
Update of MGP NVRAM completed successfully
/etc/opt/ecs/backup//.security_bkps : entry added
backup: 0: BACKUP SUCCESSFUL for security backup set, LOCAL DIRECTORY.
backup: backup image - /var/home/ftp/pub/security_s8300_143111_20130125.tar.gz
Cleaning up working directory - /var/tmp/bkup/s8300_143111_20130125fileset name - /etc/opt/ecs/backup/
/os_ds.conf
NOSPOOL 0, NOLOCK 0, DYNAMIC_LIST 1

backup: Executing pre_bkup: /etc/opt/ecs/backup/bkup_proc -d /var/tmp/bkup/os_s8300_143140_20130125.pa
rm -t prebackup os

backup: Reading dynamic file list for os
backup: copying files to tmp dir

/etc/opt/ecs/backup//.total_bkp : entry added
Updating MGP NVRAM with backup location information
Update of MGP NVRAM completed successfully
/etc/opt/ecs/backup//.os_bkps : entry added
backup: 0: BACKUP SUCCESSFUL for os backup set, LOCAL DIRECTORY.
backup: backup image - /var/home/ftp/pub/os_s8300_143140_20130125.tar.gz
Cleaning up working directory - /var/tmp/bkup/s8300_143140_20130125fileset name - /etc/opt/ecs/backup/
/security_ds.conf
NOSPOOL 0, NOLOCK 0, DYNAMIC_LIST 1

backup: Executing pre_bkup: /etc/opt/ecs/backup/bkup_proc -d /var/tmp/bkup/security_s8300_143202_20130
125.parm -t prebackup security

backup: Reading dynamic file list for security
backup: copying files to tmp dir

/etc/opt/ecs/backup//.total_bkp : entry added
Updating MGP NVRAM with backup location information
Update of MGP NVRAM completed successfully
/etc/opt/ecs/backup//.security_bkps : entry added
backup: 0: BACKUP SUCCESSFUL for security backup set, LOCAL DIRECTORY.
backup: backup image - /var/home/ftp/pub/security_s8300_143202_20130125.tar.gz
Cleaning up working directory - /var/tmp/bkup/s8300_143202_20130125dadmin@s8300>
dadmin@s8300>
dadmin@s8300> cd ~ftp/pub
dadmin@s8300> pwd
/var/home/ftp/pub
dadmin@s8300> ls -ltr | tail -3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29687 Jan 25 14:31 security_s8300_143111_20130125.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54574 Jan 25 14:32 os_s8300_143140_20130125.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29689 Jan 25 14:32 security_s8300_143202_20130125.tar.gz
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s8300C Backup to 128MB USB flash card

dadmin@s8300> pwd
/diskroot/mnt/flash
dadmin@s8300> ls
lost+found
dadmin@s8300> sudo backup -b -d /mnt/flash --verbose security os xln
fileset name - /etc/opt/ecs/backup//security_ds.conf
NOSPOOL 0, NOLOCK 0, DYNAMIC_LIST 1

backup: Executing pre_bkup: /etc/opt/ecs/backup/bkup_proc -d /var/tmp/bkup/security_s8300_143503_20130
125.parm -t prebackup security

backup: Reading dynamic file list for security
backup: copying files to tmp dir

/etc/opt/ecs/backup//.total_bkp : entry added
Updating MGP NVRAM with backup location information
Update of MGP NVRAM completed successfully
/etc/opt/ecs/backup//.security_bkps : entry added
backup: 0: BACKUP SUCCESSFUL for security backup set, LOCAL DIRECTORY.
backup: backup image - /mnt/flash/security_s8300_143503_20130125.tar.gz
Cleaning up working directory - /var/tmp/bkup/s8300_143503_20130125fileset name - /etc/opt/ecs/backup/
/os_ds.conf
NOSPOOL 0, NOLOCK 0, DYNAMIC_LIST 1

backup: Executing pre_bkup: /etc/opt/ecs/backup/bkup_proc -d /var/tmp/bkup/os_s8300_143531_20130125.pa
rm -t prebackup os

backup: Reading dynamic file list for os
backup: copying files to tmp dir

/etc/opt/ecs/backup//.total_bkp : entry added
Updating MGP NVRAM with backup location information
Update of MGP NVRAM completed successfully
/etc/opt/ecs/backup//.os_bkps : entry added
backup: 0: BACKUP SUCCESSFUL for os backup set, LOCAL DIRECTORY.
backup: backup image - /mnt/flash/os_s8300_143531_20130125.tar.gz
Cleaning up working directory - /var/tmp/bkup/s8300_143531_20130125fileset name - /etc/opt/ecs/backup/
/xln_ds.conf
NOSPOOL 0, NOLOCK 0, DYNAMIC_LIST 0
backup: copying files to tmp dir

/etc/opt/ecs/backup//.total_bkp : entry added
Updating MGP NVRAM with backup location information
Update of MGP NVRAM completed successfully
/etc/opt/ecs/backup//.xln_bkps : entry added
backup: 0: BACKUP SUCCESSFUL for xln backup set, LOCAL DIRECTORY.
backup: backup image - /mnt/flash/xln_s8300_143553_20130125.tar.gz
Cleaning up working directory - /var/tmp/bkup/s8300_143553_20130125dadmin@s8300>
dadmin@s8300>
dadmin@s8300> mount
/dev/ramdisk on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hda6 on /diskroot type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /root2 type ext3 (rw,nosuid)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid)
/dev/sda5 on /var type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,noatime)
/dev/sda6 on /root2/msg type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda7 on /msg type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda8 on /msg/media1 type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda5 on /var/lib/pgsql type ext3 (rw,noatime)
/var on /diskroot/var type none (rw,nosuid,bind)
/proc on /diskroot/proc type none (rw,nosuid,bind)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,nosuid)
/dev/sdc on /diskroot/mnt/flash type ext2 (rw)
dadmin@s8300> df -hk /diskroot/mnt/flash
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc 121475 1896 113307 2% /diskroot/mnt/flash
dadmin@s8300> pwd
/diskroot/mnt/flash
dadmin@s8300> ls -l
total 357
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Aug 22 2008 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54574 Jan 25 14:35 os_s8300_143531_20130125.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29689 Jan 25 14:35 security_s8300_143503_20130125.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 264557 Jan 25 14:36 xln_s8300_143553_20130125.tar.gz




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