Cisco Systems Servers Manuale Utente

You can use the -b option to create a system backup of all Cisco Secure ACS 
internal data. The resulting backup file has the same data as the backup files 
produced by the ACS Backup feature found in the HTML interface. For more 
information about the ACS Backup feature, see the 

During the backup, all services are automatically stopped and restarted. No 
users are authenticated while the backup is occurring.

To back up Cisco Secure ACS with CSUtil.exe, follow these steps:

On the Cisco Secure ACS server, open an MS DOS command prompt and change 
directories to the directory containing CSUtil.exe. For more information about the 
location of CSUtil.exe, see the 

Type:

CSUtil.exe -b

where  filename is the name of the backup file. Press Enter.

Result: CSUtil.exe displays a confirmation prompt.

To confirm that you want to perform a backup and to halt all Cisco Secure ACS 
services during the backup, type  Y and press Enter.

Result: CSUtil.exe generates a complete backup of all Cisco Secure ACS internal 
data, including user accounts and system configuration. This process may take a 
few minutes.

CSUtil.exe displays the error message  

Backup Failed

 when it attempts to 

backup components of Cisco Secure ACS that are empty, such as when no 
administrator accounts exist. These apply only to the components that are 
empty, not to the overall success or failure of the backup.