Keeping a Spare 3300 for a backup replacement.

[thenewguy]

I am putting together a new out of box 3300 mxeIII to have on hand incase of a failure for one on site.  Theory is in time of crisis I can take this one throw it into the rack and bring it up and restore data and get the customer back up and running.  Do you guy have any suggestions or how you handle this.  What all can I do to have software as ready as possible? Can I get to the same Version of the one I have working now?  I know most of this cannot be done due to the license and ARID's.  Just looking for what you guys do in a situation like this.   

[johnp]

In theory, you could license this and restore, would have to clear hardware id on AMC. Can then restore original value

[ZuluAlpha]

Depending on the nature of the failure you could swap the iButton inside without changing anything in the AMC. You'd need to either swap or have the same expansion cards in there too like DSP, T1 Line Cards, RAID controller etc. Having SSD's or HDD's ready with the same software load you intend on restoring would save you time in a restore scenario because you wouldn't have to load that before doing the restore.

[lundah]

As long as you move the iButton to the new chassis and have the same MMC cards in the same slots, it will work without clearing the hardware ID in AMC. The only thing you have to worry about is when setting the boot options on the new controller, you have to select the correct partition (partition1 or partition4). I've done this dozens, if not hundreds of times.

[johnp]

If it is uboot, looks like this is partition1 or partition 2

[lundah]

If it is uboot, looks like this is partition1 or partition 2

Yeah I forgot that with the uboot change that looks different now. I've done far fewer chassis swaps in the last few years.

[johnp]

Just had to do a raid hard drive replacement, at a near latest version :-)