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Chapter 16. Backups and Disaster Recovery

The data contained in your directory is (or soon will be) critical to the day-to-day operation of your organization. If that data becomes unavailable through equipment failure or data corruption, your business's bottom line could suffer. Developing sound backup and restoration procedures safeguards your important data from damage. In addition to a backup strategy, you should have a disaster recovery plan that details the procedure for your organization to put its directory systems back in service after a disaster such as a fire or flood.

Of course, comprehensive backup and disaster recovery plans involve all the various information technology (IT) services provided, including file systems, databases, and applications. We won't attempt to provide a comprehensive guide to backup and disaster recovery in this chapter. Instead, we'll focus on the specifics of backing up and restoring directories, and how these procedures differ from other backup/restore procedures you may be familiar with. We'll also discuss disaster recovery procedures as they pertain specifically to your directory. With this knowledge, you should be able to incorporate your directory into your established backup/restore and disaster recovery plans.

Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services,  2002 New Riders Publishing

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backups 2nd
          zsee also disaster recovery
data
          backups 2nd
disaster recovery
          backups 2nd

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