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Cisco Unity Express Voice-Mail and Auto-Attendant CLI Administrator Guide for 3.0 and Later Versions
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Chapter 16 Backing Up and Restoring Data
Setting Backup Parameters
Prerequisites
  • Verify that the backup server is configured.
  • Verify that an FTP administrator or other user who can log in to the FTP server has full permission 
on the FTP server, such as read, write, overwrite, create, and delete permissions for files and 
directories.
Required Data for This Procedure
  • Number of revisions to save before the oldest backup is written over
  • FTP server URL
  • User ID and password of the FTP server login
SUMMARY STEPS
1. config t
2. backup {revisions number | server url ftp-url username ftp-username password ftp-password}
3. exit
4. show backup
DETAILED STEPS
Command or Action Purpose
Step 1
config t
Example:
se-10-0-0-0# config t
Enters configuration mode.
Step 2
backup {revisions number | server url ftp-url username 
ftp-username password ftp-password
}
Example:
se-10-0-0-0(config)# backup server url 
ftp://main/backups username “admin” password “wxyz”
se-10-0-0-0(config)# backup server url 
ftp://172.168.10.10/backups username “admin” 
password “wxyz”
se-10-0-0-0(config)# backup revisions 5
Sets the backup parameters.
  • server url—The ftp-url value is the URL to the 
network FTP server where the backup files will 
be stored. The ftp-username and ftp-password 
values are the user ID and password for the 
network FTP server.
Note The backup server must be configured before 
the backup revisions can be configured.
  • revisions—The number of backup files that will 
be stored. When this number is reached, the 
system deletes the oldest stored file.
In the example, main is the hostname of the FTP 
server and backups is the directory where 
backup files are stored.










