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Backing Up Your Data
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Backing Up Your Data
Use these procedures as examples to ensure that all required databases are properly backed up in
compliance with your corporate policies and standards. As a SQL Server database administrator, you are
responsible for conforming to your own corporate backup, recovery, and maintenance plans.
Use the maintenance plan that you create in addition to other database integrity and re-indexing
maintenance plans. Although you might choose to combine backup plans and other maintenance tasks
into a single SQL Server maintenance plan, creating separate backup plans can assist you in future
maintenance plan organization.
The VCM databases are configured in Simple Recovery mode, which means that you can recover the
databases to the point of the last backup. In Simple Recovery mode, you cannot restore the databases to a
specific point in time or to a point of failure, and you cannot restore transaction log backups. For details
about Simple Recovery mode, see the SQL Server documentation.
IMPORTANT The following procedures apply to SQLServer. Apply these backup concepts to any third-
party software that you use.
Procedure
1. "Back Up Your Full Database Regularly" on page 10
Back up your full VCM database regularly to avoid loss of data.
2. "Create a Differential Database Backup Daily" on page 16
Create a daily differential backup of the databases to avoid loss of data.
3. "Back Up Your VCM Collector File System Regularly" on page 22
Back up your VCM Collector file system regularly to avoid loss of data using corporate standard tools
or simple scripted file copies.
4. "Back Up Your HTTP Certificates" on page 22
If you use HTTP Agents, verify that your HTTP certificates are available for disaster recovery
purposes. Export the certificates once for each new server.
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