Database backup

If your production schedule allows, we strongly encourage you to create offline backups on a regular schedule, perhaps once a night or once a week.

The operating system provides commands so that you can create backup copies of the Content Manager OnDemand database.

Regularly scheduled offline backups can reduce the time required to rebuild the database, if you need to do so. Keep backup media in a safe place, until the next time that you create an offline backup of the database.

If your schedule does not provide time to take offline backups (that is, your system must always remain available to users), you should take online backups on a regular schedule. See the Backup and Recovery Guide for details about backing up a database.