Backup and restore

Overview

Backup and recovery includes the WebSphere Portal file system and databases. Your backup and recovery plan needs to address each deployment tier: complete system backup for catastrophic failures, backup of middleware such as WebSphere Portal and IBM WAS, and backup of individual applications running on the middleware. Backup and recovery can be performed on any or all of these tiers, depending on the needs of the portal deployment.

When creating a backup and recovery plan, consider these general questions:

• What procedure will we use to back up data?
• How often will you back up data?
• What are the trade-offs between online and offline backups?
• How does the scope of the portal deployment affect the backup and recovery strategy?
• Will we use IBM Tivoli Storage Manager or other utility to back up the file system?

Backing up and recovering a WebSphere Portal installation includes the WAS runtime environment and all applications deployed on WebSphere Portal. However, if applications use remote information sources outside of the WebSphere Portal databases and the LDAP directory, you need to consider these remote sources and develop backup and recovery procedures as part of the comprehensive strategy.

See

• Guidelines for clustered deployments
  
• Back up files, databases, and the LDAP server(s)
  
• Restore files, databases, and the LDAP server(s)
  

Parent: Administering