System information

Backing Up and Restoring System Software

In this Chapter... ■ Planning a Backup Strategy, 4-3

■ Preparing for Disaster Recovery, 4-4

■ Creating Boot Recovery Diskettes, 4-6

■ Making a Full Backup Tape, 4-9

■ Restoring Selected Data from a Backup Tape, 4-14

■ Restoring a 3070 System from a Full Backup Tape,

4-19

■ Restoring a 3070 System from the System Recovery

DVD, 4-28

NOTE

If you need to recover data and already have boot

recovery diskettes, and a full backup tape go to:

• Restoring Selected Data from a Backup

Tape on page 4-14 or

• Restoring a 3070 System from a Full Backup

Tape on page 4-19

Introduction

A disaster recovery plan, and backup disks and tape(s)

are necessary to protect your system and data against

hardware failures, corrupted data, or accidental deletion

of files. Your 3070 system includes TapeWare software

with Backup, Restore, and Disaster Recovery tools.

Objectives

After reading this chapter, you should be able to:

■ Create a backup strategy.

■ Create boot Recovery Diskettes.

■ Create a Full backup tape.

■ Restore selected data from a backup tape.

■ Boot your system from Recovery Diskettes and

use a full backup tape to restore system software

and data.

Prerequisites

■ Experience administering Windows systems.

■ Administrator log on privileges.