2 Backup and Restore Strategies

There are two approaches you can follow to create the backup and restore.

  • Strategy 1: Set up a backup location which could either be a shared drive or a remote server, that has free space greater than (at least 10%) of your original Oracle Communications Session Monitor Server. Take the backup on the shared drive or a remote server, upgrade or reinstall the original Session Monitorserver, restore the data from the backup location to the upgraded or reinstalled Session Monitor server, as required.
  • Strategy 2: Create a target machine with Oracle Communications Session Monitor Release 5.2 installed, and use this new machine to copy the data from the original Session Monitor server. In this case, you do not need to restore the data again. Hence this step consumes less time. The newly created target machine will be referred to as the Remote Server in the subsequent sections later in this Guide.

If you choose Strategy-1, then follow the steps as mentioned in Creating a Backup section to create a backup, and then the Restore Procedure for Backup Created Using Strategy 1 section to restore the backup.

If you choose Strategy-2, then first follow the steps as mentioned in Session Monitor Release 5.2 Installation Guide to install Session Monitor Release 5.2 on the new server.

Next you can follow the steps mentioned in the section Creating a Backup to use the target machine as the backup location directly, and see the steps mentioned in Restore Procedure for Backup Created Using Strategy 2 to restore the backup.

Some steps and sections, in the Backup and Restore procedure, are applicable only to specific nodes and those are mentioned in the respective step or section. The rest of the sections are applicable for all the nodes namely Mediation Engine, Mediation Engine Connector and Fraud Monitor.

Note:

Session Monitor services must be stopped during the Backup and Restore procedure. Hence traffic is not processed by the Session Monitor during this time.
First decide on the strategy, go through and understand the complete Backup and Restore procedure thoroughly before starting with the actual backup and restore.

Follow the steps exactly as mentioned in this guide for creating the backups and restoring the same.

Consult Oracle support for any clarifications, before going ahead with the backup and restore procedure.

Note:

DO NOT delete the data from the backup location, until the Backup and Restore procedure is complete and it is verified that new Session Monitor Release 5.2 is working.