Backing Up and Restoring HPDPS Directories and Files

Backup

Once you have HPDPS in use, your next consideration should be backing up the file systems, directories, and files. Files and directories represent a significant investment of time and effort. At the same time, all computer files are potentially easy to change or erase, either intentionally or by accident. If you take a careful and methodical approach to backing up your file systems, you should always be able to restore recent versions of files or file systems with little difficulty.

	NOTE: When a hard disk crashes, the information contained on that disk is destroyed. The only way to recover the destroyed data is to retrieve the information from your backup copy.

To back up your HPDPS files and directories, you should use the same method that you are presently using for your overall system. For HPDPS, you should at least back up the directories in /var/opt/pd. This is the location where the printer configuration and queued jobs are stored.

Restoring Data

Once data has been properly backed up, there are several methods of restoring the data based upon the type of backup command you have selected. That is, you need to know how your backup or archive copy was created in order to restore the data properly.