Create a backup policy

You can use the New Backup Policy wizard in iSeries™ Navigator to create a new backup policy.

To access the wizard, follow these steps:
  1. Expand Backup, Recovery and Media Services.
  2. Right-click Backup policies and select New policy.

The wizard gives you the following options for creating your backup policies:

Option Description
Back up all system and user data Enables you to do a full system backup of all user and IBM-supplied data. Printer output is not included in this backup.
Back up all user data Enables you to back up the data that belongs to users on your system, such as user profiles, user libraries, folders, configuration data, security data, and objects in directories.
Back up Lotus® server data online or a customized set of objects Enables you to do online and incremental online backups of Lotus servers (such as Domino® and QuickPlace®) or choose the items that you would like to back up.

When you finish creating the policy, you can choose to run the policy or schedule it to run later. If you want to modify the policy later, you can do that by editing the properties of the policy. There are many customization options available in the properties of the policy that are not available in the New Backup Policy wizard. To access the policy properties, right-click the policy and select Properties.

Related concepts
Online backups of Lotus servers
Related tasks
Schedule a backup policy
Related information
Plan a backup and recovery strategy