Cisco Cisco Agent Desktop 8.5 Guia Da Instalação

Backup and Restore (BARS)

February 21, 2013

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BackupDB Utility

To preserve the Recording and Statistics service database, use the BackupDB utility 
(BackupDB.bat). This utility backs up the recording metadata in the database. 
Recording metadata is the information saved about a recording—time and date of 
recording, the agent recorded, and so on. The recordings themselves are preserved 
using the CDBRTool utility. See 

 for more information.

NOTE:  If you are running Cisco Security Agent (CSA) on your CAD base 
services server, shut it down before running BackupDB on the server. 
If CSA is running when you launch BackupDB, the backup will fail.

1. Log in to the server hosting the Recording and Statistics service.

NOTE:  On a redundant system, do this on the Side A server. You can 
obtain the IP address of the Side A server by running CAD 
Configuration Setup and noting the IP addresses in the Replication 
Setup window.

2. In a command window, navigate to C:\Program Files\Cisco\Desktop\db.

This is the default location for the BackupDB utility.

3. At the prompt, type the following command.

For a flat file implementation:

BackupDB -f “<backup path>” “<script path>”

For a SQL Server implementation: 

BackupDB <user> <password> <server> <instance> <port> <authtype> 
"<backup path>" "<script path>"

Where

Argument

Description

authtype

The type of authentication used (SQL or NT)

backup path

Location of backup (must be on a local drive)

instance

The database instance name

password

Password to access the database (can be 
blank for NT authentication)