Manage Cisco Crosswork Backup and Restore
Cisco Crosswork's backup and restore features help prevent data loss and preserve your installed applications and settings.
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If you want to include Cisco NSO data in the Cisco Crosswork backup process, follow the instructions given in Backup Cisco Crosswork with Cisco NSO instead of the instructions here. |
When you create backups for the Cisco Crosswork cluster, or restore the cluster from a backup, follow these guidelines:
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During your first login, configure a destination SCP server to store backup files. This configuration is a one-time activity. You can't take a backup or initiate a restore operation until you complete this task.
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We recommend that you perform backup or restore operations during a scheduled maintenance window only. Users shouldn’t attempt to access Cisco Crosswork while these operations are running. Backups will take the system offline for about 10 minutes, but restore operations can be lengthy. Both will pause other applications until they are complete. These pauses can affect data-collection jobs.
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When performing a normal restore, Cisco Crosswork applications and data are restored to the same version as when you took the backup. When performing a disaster restore, you must use the same Cisco Crosswork software image that you used when creating the backup. You can’t perform a disaster restore using a backup created using a different version of the software.
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Use the dashboard to monitor progress of the backup or restore process, until the process completes. If you attempt to use the Cisco Crosswork system during the process, you may see incorrect content or errors, since various services pause and restart frequently.
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You can run only one backup or restore operation at a given time.
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Both the Cisco Crosswork cluster and the SCP server must be in the same IP environment. For example: If Cisco Crosswork is communicating over IPv6, so must the backup server.
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Don’t attempt to move or rename any of the backup tarballs Cisco Crosswork creates on the backup server. To save space on your backup server, you may delete older backups, but they will still appear in the job list in this version.
Before you begin
Before you begin, ensure that you have:
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The hostname or IP address and the port number of a secure SCP server.
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A file path on the SCP server, to use as the destination for your backup files.
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User credentials for an account with file read and write permissions to the remote path on the destination SCP server.
Procedure
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Configure an SCP backup server:
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Create a backup: |
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To restore from a backup file: |