STORE and TurboSTORE/iX Products Manual (B5151-90003)

Chapter 1 21
Introduction
Disaster Recovery Plans
Disaster Recovery Plans
Regular system backups protect the information in your system from irretrievable loss by
providing a copy of the information. However, natural and man-made problems, such as
smoke, noxious fumes, explosion, flood, earthquake, and sabotage, can still threaten both
your backup media and your system hardware. A disaster recovery plan protects your
organization from such potential disablement by establishing procedures for duplicating
and safely storing backup media and maintaining a site for "substitute" computer
hardware. Although implementing a disaster recovery plan is time-consuming and costly,
saving your system from an unexpected disaster is almost always worth the effort. Refer to
Chapter 13, "Disaster Recovery," for more detail.
Related Documentation
Before you begin to plan and perform system backups, you should have a working
knowledge of several system administrator functions. In particular, performing a system
backup draws from information presented in the following manuals:
• System Startup, Configuration, and Shutdown Reference Manual
• MPE/iX Commands Reference Manual
• Performing System Management Tasks
• Performing System Operation Tasks
• MPE/iX System Utilities Reference Manual
Other documentation that provides additional information related to various aspects of the
store and restore processes include:
• HP3000 900 Series Computer System Configuration Guide
The information presented in this book, STORE and TurboSTORE/iX Products Manual,
does not describe how to use any specific hardware to perform the store and restore
procedures. Refer to your hardware documentation for that specific information.