
MCS 5100 RTP Media Portal Basics
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Appendix A: Backup and recovery
How this chapter is organized
This chapter is organized as follows:
• Backup and restore on page 67
— Prerequisites on page 67
— Duration on page 68
— Remote tape drive set up on page 69
— Backup to remote tape drive on page 70
— Restore on page 70
— Error scenarios on page 80
• Recovery on page 83
— Replacement of CPU host card on page 83
— Replacement of task processor on page 83
Backup and restore
Prerequisites
The following prerequisites are required for a RTP Media Portal backup
or restore.
• Remote DDS4 tape drive. The tape drive does not need to be within
the MCP Service Network, but it must be attached to a Solaris*
machine that is visible to the server conducting the backup.
• DDS4 tape, in the remote tape drive. For Universal Serial Bus (USB)
drives, use a 20 GB tape. For SCSI drives, use a 12 GB tape.
• Live 100Mbps Ethernet connection.
• IP address of the tape server.
• Full duplex mode. Ensure all nodes involved have their network
interface set to full duplex mode. This includes the server being
backed up or restored, the tape server, and any intermediate node
in the network being traversed. All MCP Servers should be set to
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