The following sections provide manual backup and restore procedures. You can manually back up Common Services, restore Common Services, or restore Cluster Control Manager.
Important:
You cannot back up or restore cluster nodes through VMware snapshots. Instead, use the procedures in this section. Ensure that you have a recent Cluster Control Manager backup and a solution backup.
Archive destination
You can set the archive destination for backup files to:
Local: To store backup files in the local directory at /var/avaya/artifactCache/ccmClusterBackup.
Remote: To specify a remote directory for storing backup files.
You can configure the archive destination as follows:
During the deployment or upgrade process
While performing the backup procedure in this chapter
With the ccm archive config [local|remote] command
When setting the archive destination to Remote, you must also specify your remote server details.
Scheduled backup
You can also configure scheduled backups. You can configure scheduled backup settings during the deployment or upgrade process, or using the ccm backup schedule command with the options you want to configure.
Log files
You can find log files at /var/log/avaya/ccm/. The following backup and restore log files are available:
