Backing Up and Restoring GSVM Data

This section describes how to backup and restore data:

Backing Up Data Manually

Restoring Backed Up Data Manually

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Backing Up Data Manually

Purpose: To back up a snapshot of all data that Genesys SIP Voicemail keeps in the server storage directory.
Start

1. Open the directory GSVM/tools/bin
2. Run the program ./datasnapshot This command backs up Genesys SIP Voicemail data by saving snapshots to the directories GSVM/storage/data/sipvm/snapshots and GSVM/storage/data/system/snapshots.
3. Move or copy these directories (GSVM/storage/data/sipvm/snapshots and GSVM/storage/data/system/snapshots) to a backup location.

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Notes:

• You do not need to stop GSVM to perform this backup procedure.
• You can create a cron job to perform this backup automatically.
• This manual backup procedure stores multiple backups; nothing is overwritten. You must manually delete older backups if limited disk space is an issue.

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Restoring Backed Up Data Manually

Purpose: To restore a snapshot of all data that Genesys SIP Voicemail that you created using the procedure Backing Up Data Manually. Start

1. Stop GSVM.
2. Delete the contents of content of GSVM/storage.
3. Copy from the directories in your backup location to GSVM/storage/data/sipvm/snapshots and GSVM/storage/data/system/snapshots.
4. Start GSVM.

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See Starting and Stopping.