Backup and Restore Overview
Cisco Crosswork's backup and restore features help prevent data loss and preserve your installed applications and settings.
Cisco Crosswork offers multiple menu options to backup and restore your data.
From the main menu, click Backup and Restore window.
to access the
Menu option |
Description |
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Actions > Data Backup (See Manage Cisco Crosswork Backup and Restore for details) |
Preserves the Cisco Crosswork configuration data. The backup file can be used with the data disaster restore (Restore Cisco Crosswork After a Disaster) to recover from a serious outage. Among the backup options, you can also choose to Backup with NSO. This option preserves the Cisco NSO data along with the Cisco Crosswork configuration. See Backup Cisco Crosswork with Cisco NSO for details. |
Actions > Data Disaster Restore (See Restore Cisco Crosswork After a Disaster for details) |
Restores the Cisco Crosswork configuration data after a natural or human-caused disaster has destroyed a Crosswork cluster. You must deploy a new cluster first, following the instructions in Cisco Crosswork Network Controller 6.0 Installation Guide, and must install the exact versions of the applications that were present in your old Crosswork cluster (when you made the data backup) in your new Crosswork cluster. Any mismatch in the build versions of the applications can result in data loss and failure of the restore job. |
Actions > Data Migration (See Migrate Data Using Backup and Restore for details) |
Migrates data from an older version of Cisco Crosswork to a newer version. |