Backup and Restore Overview
Cisco Crosswork's backup and restore features help prevent data loss and preserve your installed applications and settings.
Cisco Crosswork offers multiple menu options to backup and restore your data.
From the main menu, click Backup and Restore window.
to access the
Menu option |
Description |
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Actions > Backup (See Manage Cisco Crosswork Backup and Restore for details) |
Preserves the Cisco Crosswork configuration database and application files. The backup file can be used in with the disaster restore (Restore Cisco Crosswork After a Disaster) to recover from a serious outage. Among the backup options, you can also choose to Backup with NSO. This option preserves the Cisco NSO data along with the Cisco Crosswork configuration. See Backup Cisco Crosswork with Cisco NSO for details. |
Actions > Data Backup (See Manage Cisco Crosswork Backup and Restore for details) |
Preserves ONLY the Cisco Crosswork configuration data. The data backup option is faster than a regular backup, and is mainly used on an otherwise working system to restore data to a prior point in time. |
Actions > Disaster Restore (See Restore Cisco Crosswork After a Disaster for details) |
Restores the Cisco Crosswork configuration database and application files after a natural or human-caused disaster has destroyed a Crosswork cluster. You must deploy a new cluster first, following the instructions in Cisco Crosswork Network Controller 5.0 Installation Guide. |
Actions > Data Disaster Restore (See Restore Cisco Crosswork After a Disaster for details) |
Similar to the Disaster Restore operation, except it ONLY restores the Cisco Crosswork configuration data. You need a data backup file ( to perform this operation.Along with the new cluster, you must install the exact versions of the applications that were present in your old Crosswork cluster (when you made the data backup) in your new Crosswork cluster. Any mismatch in the build versions of the applications can result in data loss and failure of the restore job. |
Actions > Data Migration (See Migrate Data Using Backup and Restore for details) |
Migrates data from an older version of Cisco Crosswork to a newer version. |