Disaster Recovery

System administrators or users should routinely backup the RSM database. For instructions on how to do this, see the Windows 2000 Resource Kit.

If you are writing a backup application that is used to backup system databases such as RSMs, or if your application requires its own preparations for disaster recovery that might require special handling of the RSM database, then you need to call specific RSM functions in order to get a consistent copy of the database files. For example, Windows 2000 Remote Storage makes copies of the RSM database files at the end of each data migration job. In a disaster situation, it is possible to completely restore Remote Storage even if the administrator has not been routinely backing up RSM's database explicitly.