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
2 | March 2013
Table of Contents
Abstract .................................................................................................................... 3
Introduction .............................................................................................................. 4
Saving and restoring data files ................................................................................... 5
Saving and restoring files where HP SIM is installed using a Microsoft SQL database (2008
Express/2008 Standard) ......................................................................................................................... 5
Backing up the HP SIM database ............................................................................................................................... 7
Restoring HP SIM configuration files and SQL Server 2008 R2 data files from a backup .............................. 8
Saving and restoring files for an Oracle database ........................................................................... 12
Saving data files for use with Oracle ...................................................................................................................... 12
Backing up the HP SIM database ............................................................................................................................. 17
Restoring data files for use with Oracle ................................................................................................................. 18
Restoring the database ............................................................................................................................................. 19
For more information ............................................................................................... 22