Backing up and restoring IBM Maximo Application Suite

Backup and Restore refers to the process of creating a copy of your entire system (including files, settings, and operating system) onto external storage, allowing you to revert your system back to that exact state if needed, such as after a system crash or data corruption, by restoring the backup data.

Plan and implement backup and restore strategies for recovery from unplanned events, such as data loss or catastrophic failure of Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform.

About this task

Backing up and restoring IBM® Maximo® Application Suite involves being familiar with the overview of the key concepts and processes, and then selecting a backup and restore option that works for you.

The overview guides you through the best practices for backing up on a regular basis, and ensuring that you can successfully recover from disaster with minimal risk and downtime. It also provides guidance and dependencies for each component and application, to help support your backup solution.

After you are familiar with the processes, select from one of the following backup and restore options that best suit your business needs:

Manual option: You can manually backup and restore IBM Maximo Application Suite components and applications, so that you have complete control over your processes; or
Automated options: You can automate backup and restore for IBM Maximo Application Suite with either the MAS CLI utility, Ansible collection, or IBM Storage Fusion.