IBM REDP-4372-00 manual Introducing the LAB environment, LAB environment used for this Redpaper

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1.7.5 Backing up and restoring an entire system to resolve a problem

If the system contains dynamic data, a new POS plug-in utility for the Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment product can be used to create image-backups of individual systems for faster restores. Obviously a restore can only recover the data that were included in the backup. If the dynamic data are weekly or daily price updates this should be managed by running daily backups.

The POS plug-in will be covered in Chapter 5, “System image snapshots” on page 95.

1.8 Introducing the LAB environment

In order to test realistic scenarios, a small environment has been established for the production of this Redpaper. The systems used throughout the scenarios are depicted in Figure 1-5 on page 13.

Figure 1-5 The LAB environment used for this Redpaper

The environment consist of two Intel based servers running Microsoft Windows 2003 Server and Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment. One (BERLIN) represents a development and testing environment, while the other (NICE) is used to represent a production environment in a store. There is also an

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