Prepare for disaster recovery

Cyberattacks, natural disasters, power and network outages, and application failures can occur without warning, resulting in damage to systems and data. By having a plan for backup operations and disaster recovery, you can help your organization recover.

Back up and recover installations

You can use the PE backup tool to regularly back up your installation. Then, if you migrate your primary server to a new operating system or replace your primary server hardware, you can restore your installation. The backup and restore process can also be useful for troubleshooting or for recovering your installation after a system failure.

The PE backup tool is designed for backing up and restoring standard or large PE installations. For extra-large installations, consider using an alternative backup or snapshot process. See Back up and restore PE.

Back up and recover configurations

The backup and recovery process for configurations involves regularly backing up system and application configuration settings. With PE, you can customize the scope of backup and recovery operations. To back up your configuration, set the --scope option to config. See Customize scope of backup and restore.

Back up and recover data

For details about backing up and restoring specific types of data, see Customize scope of backup and restore. To back up all data, do not customize the scope.