Back up and recover integrated Windows servers

Because Windows environment on iSeries™ combines two operating systems (Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003 with i5/OS™), you can use either i5/OS or Windows server utilities or a combination of both to manage backups. When you are planning your backup strategy, refer to the Backup and recovery topic, as well as Microsoft® documentation.

To back up an integrated server on iSeries, you have these basic options:

• Do a full system backup on your i5/OS. See the topic Back up your server.
• Back up the network server description (NWSD) and the disk drives that are associated with the integrated server on iSeries. See Back up the NWSD and other objects associated with an integrated Windows server.
• Back up individual integrated server files by using the i5/OS SAV and RST commands and i5/OS NetServer™ or a backup utility. See Back up individual integrated Windows server files and directories.

Your recovery options depend on how you backed up your system, as well as what you need to recover.

• If you need to recover your entire system, refer to the book Backup and Recovery .
• If you need to restore a network server description and its associated i5/OS disk drives, refer to Restore an integrated Windows server's NWSD and disk drives.
• To restore integrated server data (files, directories, shares, and the Windows registry) that you backed up with the Save (SAV) command, see Recover integrated Windows server files.
• To restore files that you saved with Windows backup utilities or other utilities, use those utilities.