Disaster Recovery Plan for RTC (Backup and restore)
Hello Members,
We have significant number of data in RTC now that it has become a critical server for us. We want to put up a regular backup schedule for RTC.
I checked in RTC documentation & jazz.net site, but nothing much was there except that it asked to backup the RTC DB using DB2 backup commands. I think it must be something more than that.
Is there a documented procedure for RTC Server Backup and Restore? Like, in addition to DB backup, a set of configuration files to include in the backup? Thank you for your time.
We have significant number of data in RTC now that it has become a critical server for us. We want to put up a regular backup schedule for RTC.
I checked in RTC documentation & jazz.net site, but nothing much was there except that it asked to backup the RTC DB using DB2 backup commands. I think it must be something more than that.
Is there a documented procedure for RTC Server Backup and Restore? Like, in addition to DB backup, a set of configuration files to include in the backup? Thank you for your time.
2 answers
This article is still accurate for the DB part:
http://jazz.net/library/techtip/98/
Note that one important aspect of this is also to test backups... so you know you are archiving useful data for the bad days.
You may also want to read this: https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/JFSServerAdmin#Server_Backup_Maintenance for completeness. There are index files on disk, but these can be re-generated in case of a disaster (in RTC usecase, these should be quick to recreate).
http://jazz.net/library/techtip/98/
Note that one important aspect of this is also to test backups... so you know you are archiving useful data for the bad days.
You may also want to read this: https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/JFSServerAdmin#Server_Backup_Maintenance for completeness. There are index files on disk, but these can be re-generated in case of a disaster (in RTC usecase, these should be quick to recreate).