Installation Guide for Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager Release 5.5
Backup and Restore Procedures

Table Of Contents

Backup and Restore Procedures

Overview

How to Perform Backup Procedure

Backing Up the Database

Backing Up Configuration Files

Database Connectivity Property File

Configuration Files

LDAP Configuration Files

Network Manager Configuration Files

Backing Up Branding and Sound Files

Backing Up the License

Backing Up the Internal Gatekeeper Configuration File

How to Perform Restore Procedure

Procedure Overview

Restoring the Database

Restoring Configuration Files

Restoring Branding and Sound Files

Restoring the License

Restoring the Internal Gatekeeper Configuration File


Backup and Restore Procedures


This section is intended to assist system administrators to back up and restore the Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager database and configuration files.

Overview

How to Perform Backup Procedure

How to Perform Restore Procedure

Overview

There are many reasons for performing system backups on a regular basis. While it is usually assumed that backups are necessary only in cases of disk crashes or other physical disasters, most such cases are application-related. For example:

User mistakes

Application bugs

Power failure

Disk corruption

Any other kind of physical disaster

To restore Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager data, stop the Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager service before restoring the database, configuration files, branding and sound files. Restart the Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager service after restoration is complete.

How to Perform Backup Procedure

Backing Up the Database

Backing Up Configuration Files

Backing Up Branding and Sound Files

Backing Up the License

Backing Up the Internal Gatekeeper Configuration File

Backing Up the Database

The database backup procedure supports MySQL database version 4.0.21. This section describes how to back up MySQL database version 4.0.21.

Procedure


Step 1 Open a DOS window and modify the current directory so that the default path points to the MySQL bin directory.

The default MySQL installation path is:

C:\Program Files\MySQl\mysql-4.0.21-win\bin

Step 2 Run the following DOS command to dump the contents of the MySQL database to a file called mydump:

mysqldump -u root --all-databases --add-drop-table --single-transaction > mydump

where

-u root indicates that the user account "root" is used to run this command. "Root" is the default administrator created during MySQL installation.

--all-databases means that all databases are to be backed up.

--add-drop-table ensures that drop table SQL statements are generated for every dumped table.

--single-transaction ensures that you do not need to stop the MySQL service when you back up the database.

By default, you do not need to provide a password for local "root" login. However, if you change the root user password, you should add the text "-p password" to the command line. For example:

mysqldump -u root -p rootpassword --all- databases --add-drop-table --single-transaction >mydump

Step 3 Save the mydump file to a safe location.


Backing Up Configuration Files

This section describes how to back up the following files by copying them to a different physical location:

Database Connectivity Property File

Configuration Files

LDAP Configuration Files

Network Manager Configuration Files

Backing Up Branding and Sound Files

Database Connectivity Property File

Place the mysql-ds.xml file under C:\Program Files\Cisco\Unified Videoconferencing Manager\CUVCMRM\jboss\server\default\deploy.


Note This is the default JBOSS_HOME directory for Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager version 5.1. For older versions, the JBOSS_HOME directory may be different.


Configuration Files

Backup the following configuration files from C:\Program Files\Cisco\Unified Videoconferencing Manager\CUVCMRM\jboss\bin:

vcs-cdr-config.xml

vsc-config.xml

vcs-core.properties

vnex.properties

LDAP Configuration Files

Place the following files under the C:\Program Files\Cisco\Unified Videoconferencing Manager\CUVCMRM\jboss\bin\configFiles directory:

All files (if any) under this directory.

Network Manager Configuration Files

Place the following under the C:\Program Files\Cisco\Unified Videoconferencing Manager\CUVCMRM\jboss\server\default\deploy\vcs.ear\cuvcmnm.war\WEB-INF\classes\ directory:

adminconfig folder

config folder

Backing Up Branding and Sound Files

Back up all files (if any) located under the C:\Program Files\Cisco\Unified Videoconferencing Manager\CUVCMRM\jboss\server\default\deploy\branding.war\image directory to a different physical location.

Backing Up the License

Go to My Computer > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Cisco > Resource Manager > 4.0 component of CUVC-M\4.0" directory, and save the value under "license".

Backing Up the Internal Gatekeeper Configuration File

Go to the Web interface of the internal gatekeeper on port 8011 and click Export to save the configuration files of the internal gatekeeper.

How to Perform Restore Procedure

This section describes how to restore Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager data. This section includes the following topics:

Procedure Overview

Restoring the Database

Restoring Configuration Files

Restoring Branding and Sound Files

Restoring the License

Restoring the Internal Gatekeeper Configuration File

Procedure Overview

The restoring procedure includes the following stages:

Stop the Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager service

Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services.

Find the service named "Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager" and stop it.

Restore the database—see the Restoring the Database.

Restore the configuration files—see the Restoring Configuration Files.

Restore the Branding and Sound Files—see the Restoring Branding and Sound Files.

Restore the License Files—see the Restoring the License.

Start the Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager service.

Restoring the Database

The database backup procedure supports MySQL database version 4.0.21. This section describes how to restore MySQL database version 4.0.21.

Procedure


Step 1 Open a DOS window and modify the current directory so that the default path points to the MySQL bin directory.

The default MySQL installation path is:

C:\Program Files\MySQl\mysql-4.0.21-win\bin.

Step 2 Copy the mydump file to this directory where mydump is the name of the database backup file.

Step 3 In the DOS window, enter the "mysql -u root" command to access the MySQL database command line user interface.

The command link prompt changes to mysql>.

Step 4 Run the following command to restore the content that has been dumped into the backup file to the database:

mysql> source mydump

Step 5 Run the following command to exit the MySQL command line window:

mysql > exit


Restoring Configuration Files

Restore the configuration files listed in the Backing Up Configuration Files.

Restoring Branding and Sound Files

Refer to the Backing Up Branding and Sound Files.

Restoring the License

Go to Start > Programs > Cisco > Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager > Update License, and enter the backup license.

Restoring the Internal Gatekeeper Configuration File

Go to the Web interface of the internal gatekeeper on port 8011 and click Import to import the configuration backup of the internal gatekeeper.