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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 sh...
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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.