Understanding How the LSMS Backs Up File Systems and Databases

Each night at midnight, the LSMS automatically backs up the following to disk:

• Platform configuration (for each server), stored as plat.xml
• The entire LSMS database, stored as lsmsdb.xml
• The entire LSMS logs filesystem, stored as lsmslogs.xml

When both servers are functioning, the automatic backup function backs up the database (lsmsdb.xml) and logs (lsmslogs.xml) from the standby server, and backs up only the platform configuration (plat.xml) from the active server.

If only one server is active, the automatic backup function backs up all the files shown in the bulleted list above from the active server.

In addition, you can perform the same backups manually at any time (see Backing Up the LSMS Manually).