Backing up and restoring HP Systems Insight Manager 7.x or greater data files in a Windows environment

White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.x
8 | March 2013
In this example, the name of the database is SIMDB1; the backup database would be named
SIMDB1.bak.
Figure 2: Backing up the database
Restoring HP SIM configuration files and SQL Server 2008 R2 data files from a backup
1. Uninstall HP SIM.
This uninstalls HP SIM, but retains SIMDB1, as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3: SIMDB1 database
2. Reinstall SIM.
This creates a blank database with a new name (SIMDB2 in this example). See Figure 4.