Disaster Recovery

Follow the steps of this procedure to use the backup and restore tools to recover from a complete failure of the system dependency server system.

Recovering the system dependency server

This task is most effective if you have made daily backups and stored them externally.

To Recover From a System Dependency Server Disaster

1. Perform a daily backup as described previously.

2. Select a backup server to replace the broken server. Change the hostname of the new server to match the name of the faulty system.

3. Change DNS to resolve the hostname to the new server’s IP address.

4. Install the system dependency server on the new system.

5. Restore the last backup archive by using the restore.sh script.

6. Start the console.

7. Manually apply all unsaved changes made to the system dependency server after the last backup.