HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 4 87
Getting Started with HPDPS
Backing Up and Restoring HPDPS Directories and Files
Backing Up and Restoring HPDPS Directories
and Files
This section provides some information concerning the need to back up
HPDPS directories and files and how to restore the information later on.
Backup
Once you have HPDPS in use, your next consideration should be backing
up the file systems, directories, and files. Files and directories represent
a significant investment of time and effort. At the same time, all
computer files are potentially easy to change or erase, either
intentionally or by accident. If you take a careful and methodical
approach to backing up your file systems, you should always be able to
restore recent versions of files or file systems with little difficulty.
NOTE When a hard disk crashes, the information contained on that disk is
destroyed. The only way to recover the destroyed data is to retrieve the
information from your backup copy.
To back up your HPDPS files and directories, you should use the same
method that you are presently using for your overall system. For
HPDPS, you should at least back up the directories in /var/opt/pd.This
is the location where the printer configuration and queued jobs are
stored.
Restoring Data
Once data has been properly backed up, there are several methods of
restoring the data based upon the type of backup command you have
selected. That is, you need to know how your backup or archive copy was
created in order to restore the data properly.