Recovering Cisco UCS service profile backups

Unitrends leverages the native Cisco XML API to recover from service profile backups. Use the Recover option to recover the entire backup group up to the point in time when the backup ran or to recover selected items.

See the following topics for details:

Before recovering, review the following requirements and considerations

• Service profiles, templates, pools, and policies must be recovered using the original name to prevent namespace collisions.
• Recovering a profile, template, pool, or policy overwrites the original if it exists on the UCS.
• Recovering an active profile takes down that service profile. You must restart the service profile after the recovery completes.
• You can recover the entire backup or selected items to the original asset or to an alternate UCS manager asset that has been added to the appliance.
• Before recovering an entire backup, it is recommended to view its contents to be sure you want to recover all items. During the recovery procedure, you can expand the file browser to view these items. For UCS file naming conventions, see Identifying files in UCS service profile backups.
• Only one recovery or backup operation per UCS manager can run at any given time. Any subsequent jobs are queued and started once the last run completes.

You can recover from a backup by using the Backup Catalog or the Backup Browser. To recover from an imported backup or hot backup copy, you must use the Backup Catalog. See the following topics for details:

Use this procedure to recover the entire backup or selected service profiles, templates, pools, and policies.

Run this procedure from the backup appliance to recover from a backup or imported backup copy. Run this procedure from the backup copy target appliance to recover from hot backup copy.

1 Log in to the backup appliance or target appliance (if recovering from a hot backup copy).
2 Select Recover and click the Backup Catalog tab.

(Optional) Use Filter Backups to the right to customize the backups that display. For details, see Working with custom filters.

3 Expand the UCS asset and select a backup, imported backup, or hot backup copy to use for the recovery.

(To import a backup copy, see To import a cold backup copy or To import a hot backup copy.)

4 Click Recover.
5 In the File Browser, expand folders to view items in the backup.

To expand all folders, press * on your keyboard.

6 Select or drag files to recover. To recover the entire backup, select the top-level folder.
7 Click Next.
8 Specify a Restore Target by selecting an asset.

This must be the original UCS manager or another UCS manager that has been added to the appliance.

9 Click Save.
10 Click OK to close the Notice message.

Selected items are recovered to the target location. To view the running job, select Jobs > Active Job.

11 Once the job completes, use the UCS manager to restart any active service profiles that have been recovered.

Use this procedure to recover the entire backup or selected service profiles, templates, pools, and policies.

Note:  This procedure is not supported for imported backups and backup copies. To recover an imported backup or hot backup copy, use the Backup Catalog procedure above.

1 Log in to the backup appliance.
2 Select Recover > Backup Catalog and click Backup Browser.
3 Select the Appliance and Date Range of backups to search. Backups that ran during the date range display.
4 (Optional) Refine the search:
• Enter text in any column field to filter the display.
• Click an arrow to sort by column.
• Click the accordion icon to add or remove columns from the display. (Not all columns display by default.)
• For a description of each column, see Backup Browser column descriptions.
5 Select the backup.
6 Click Recover.
7 In the File Browser, expand folders to view items in the backup.

To expand all folders, press * on your keyboard.

8 Select or drag files to recover. To recover the entire backup, select the top-level folder.
9 Click Next.
10 Specify a Restore Target by selecting an asset.

This must be the original UCS manager or another UCS manager that has been added to the appliance.

11 Click Save.
12 Click OK to close the Notice message.

Selected items are recovered to the target location. To view the running job, select Jobs > Active Job.

13 Once the job completes, use the UCS manager to restart any active service profiles that have been recovered.

Each UCS service profile backup contains all supported service profiles, templates, pools, and policies present on the UCS at the time the backup ran. When recovering, it may be necessary to select specific items. Use the following naming conventions table to identify items in a UCS profile backup.

Note:   The following objects are not included in Unitrends UCS profile backups: BIOS defaults, IPMI access policies, management firmware policies (deprecated, replaced by host firmware packages), and iSCSI authentication profiles.

Supported Cisco UCS objects

File prefix naming convention

Service profiles and templates

ls-*

Adapter policies

eth-profile* or fc-profile*

BIOS policies

bios-prof-*

Boot policies

boot-policy-*

Host firmware packages

fw-host-pack-*

Local disk configuration policies

local-disk-config-*

Maintenance policies

maint-*

Power control policies

power-policy-*

Scrub policies

scrub-*

Serial over LAN policies

sol-*

Server pool policies

compute-pool-*

Server pool policy qualifications

blade-qualifier-*

Threshold policies

thr-policy-*

vNIC/vHBA placement policies

vcon-profile-*

Sub-organizations

org-*