Backing up and restoring components

Backup and recovery of data files and databases is an essential operation for any business system, particularly for data and applications that are running in production environments. Create and follow a plan for backing up and recovering the data for all components of your Performance Management infrastructure.

For disaster recovery plans, consider backing up on one server and restoring to a second server if the servers are at the same fix pack level.

You should set the target Performance Management server to the same host name and IP address as the source Performance Management server. Otherwise, Performance Management is not fully functional after the disaster recovery completes until you reconfigure your managed resources to point to a different server and tell your Performance Management console users to log in with a different URL.

For information about backing up and restoring when upgrading your server, see Upgrading your server.