Develop Backup Plans

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Develop Backup Plans

To protect against the loss of any or all systems, use off-site storage for all data that you back up and a backup schedule that meets your maximum downtime requirements. The backup and restore procedures use different applications, so they should be coordinated for recovery of the CA IdentityMinder system as a whole.

Include the following components in your backup plans:

Component	Description	Backup Method
The CA IdentityMinder User Store	An LDAP user directory or a relational database that contains the records for CA IdentityMinder users	See the documentation supplied with your database or LDAP software.
The CA IdentityMinder Databases	The databases for Task Persistence, Workflow, Auditing, Object Store, Reporting, and Task Persistence Archive Workflow, Task Persistence, and Auditing have the highest frequency of change and backups should be scheduled accordingly.	See the documentation supplied with your database software.
SiteMinder Policy Store	An LDAP user directory or a relational database with objects for the SiteMinder Policy Server, if you are using SiteMinder	See the documentation supplied with your database or LDAP software.
Provisioning Directory	An LDAP user directory that contains the records for provisioning users and provisioning objects	See the CA Directory documentation.
Application Server JMS persistent stores	The stores used to hold CA IdentityMinder Task Event processing messages	See the Application Server documentation.
Reporting databases	Snapshot database Business Objects database	See the documentation supplied with your database software.
Custom reports	Custom reports and related XML files	See the Business Objects Enterprise, Release 2 and Release 2 SP4 documentation on the SAP documentation website.

Include the following components in your backup plans using a file system backup program:

Component	Description
Web Server Components	Configuration of deployed Web Server components, such as Application Server plug-ins and SiteMinder Web Agents. A Web Server front end is required if you are using load balancing of if you are using SiteMinder to protect access to the User Console.
XML data files	All CA IdentityMinder Directory and Environment files that are used to create, maintain, and archive CA IdentityMinder Object Store objects.
CA IdentityMinder customization components	Files found under the following deployed iam_im.ear folders: Config User_console.war WEB-INF\web.xml
Scripts and Programs	TEWS scripts, programs, program exits
Connector Xpress components	Custom connectors Connector Xpress project files
Disaster Recovery Documentation	Once you create your own documentation for disaster recovery, back it up regularly in case the instructions change.