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Carlande_Desarm's avatar
Carlande_Desarm
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Jan 30, 2018

When UCS / when SCF

Please help... these 2 terms almost referrencing to the same concepts for backup/restore. But i want to understand the logic behind when to use one versus the other.

 

  • In which circumstances i should perform/use/take a UCS versus SCF file? meaing ... what scenario do i take a USC file and what scenario do i take a SCF file config for backup and restore.
  • What makes them different one from each other?

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  • Stanislas_Piro2's avatar
    Stanislas_Piro2
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    Jan 30, 2018

    An ucs is a full archive of the whole configuration. It is used during version migration, hardware migration.

     

    A scf file may only be copied to the same version as the source appliance. It can be used to merge multiple appliances configuration into one appliance.