Cisco Cisco IPICS Release 1.0 User Guide

Cisco IPICS saves the log file to the specified location and closes the Save As 
window.

The data that you back up to a remote server can only be restored to your current 
Cisco IPICS server. If the data on your current Cisco IPICS server becomes 
irretrievable and you install Cisco IPICS software on another server, the new 
installation would not be able to use the backup that was taken from the current 
server.

To ensure that you can recover from a situation in which your current Cisco IPICS 
server becomes disabled, you can use the export function. Cisco IPICS provides 
the db.export.sh shell script, which allows you to place database content into a 
form that can be restored to any other Cisco IPICS server installation. 

The db.export.sh script backs up your database and creates the ipics.exp directory. 
You can use scp to copy the ipics.exp directory to a remote server or save the 
directory in a zip file and place it on a removable storage device.

If you install Cisco IPICS on another server, you can place the ipics.exp directory 
on the new server and run the db.import.sh script. This script would import the 
backed up content and rebuild the database on your new server.

This section includes the following topics:

You can only use exported data if the database schema in the new Cisco IPICS 
installation has not changed from the Cisco IPICS installation from which it was 
exported.