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Chapter 4 Administering the Cisco Secure ACS Appliance
Working with System Data
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Step 13 At the Are you sure you want to proceed? (Y or N) prompt, type Y and then
press Enter.
Result: The Cisco Secure ACS Appliance receives the backup file from the
specified location and displays messages regarding the restoration. You may see
warnings about components not included in the backup file. For example, if Cisco
Secure ACS Appliance has no shared profile components configured, you see a
message about DCS (device command sets) not on the backup. This is normal.
When completed the system displays the message:
Done
Compacting the ACS Appliance Database
This section details the procedure you perform to compact the Cisco Secure ACS
Appliance user database. Like many relational databases, the Cisco Secure ACS
Appliance user database handles the deletion of records by marking deleted
records as deleted but not removing the record from the database. Over time, your
Cisco Secure ACS Appliance user database may be substantially larger than is
required by the number of users it contains. To reduce the CiscoSecure user
database size, you can compact it periodically.
Database compaction includes three basic operations that take place
automatically when you issue the dbcompact command:
• A database dump occurs.
• The database is initialized, thus removing deleted records.
• The dumped data is loaded back to the database.
Performing this procedure can reduce the amount of space that the database takes
up and improve the database response time.
Caution Compacting the CiscoSecure user database requires that you stop the CSAuth
service. While CSAuth is stopped, no users are authenticated.