Backup and Recovery

Backup and recovery strategies are part of a larger availability and resiliency strategy you created when designing your network for Unwired Platform environment.

Backup and recovery strategies can be one of two types: error correction and disaster recovery. The Unwired Platform documentation discusses error correction. For disaster recovery, you may need to engage with other vendors that provide solutions geared to maintaining the viability of your entire enterprise.

• Sample Backup and Recovery Plan
  Provides a basic backup and recovery plan.
• Failure and Recovery Scenarios
  Describes several failure scenarios (using the Sample Backup and Recovery Plan setup), how recovery works, and implications for Sybase Unwired Platform operation.
• Backing Up the File System
  Regularly perform backups of the Sybase Unwired Platform files and directories.
• Backing Up System Data
  For platform data, back up Unwired Server runtime databases and Sybase Control Center (SCC) repositories using the process described for SQL Anywhere databases. Messaging database requires its own process.
• Restoration of the Installation File System
  Restore the Sybase Unwired Platform installation file system from a backup.
• Restoration of the Runtime Database
  Restore the Sybase Unwired Platform runtime databases and transaction logs from a backup.
• Restoration of the Messaging Data
  Restore the Sybase Unwired Platform messaging data tables from a backup by running the MORecover utility.