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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