448 Nortel Networks Symposium Web Center PortalMaintaining the database Standard 2.0System recovery and platform migrationIntroductionNortel Networks recommends that you have a complete system backup image ofthe Symposium Web Center Portal server to provide a fail-safe recoverymechanism in the event of a loss of server. If this is not available, you can use theprocedures in this section to back up the necessary components to allow the fullrecovery of the Symposium Web Center Portal server on to another computer.To back up a Symposium Web Center Portal system for recovery1. Shut down all Symposium Web Center Portal services.2. Use the Backup and Restore utility to back up the database. For moreinformation, refer to “Backing up and restoring the Symposium Web CenterPortal database,” on page 435.3. Make a copy of the Master.dat and Sybprocs.dat files.4. Make a copy of the e-mail attachments folder.5. Export the registry key ..\Nortel Networks\Symposium Web Center Portalto a file.To recover a Symposium Web Center Portal system from a systembackupNote: You must use the same installation paths in the recovery as you used in theoriginal installation of Symposium Web Center Portal.1. Install Symposium Web Center Portal to the same PEP level as the originalsystem.2. Shut down all Symposium Web Center Portal services.3. Copy the attachments folder with the files you copied for the sourcecomputer in the procedure above.4. Overwrite Master.dat and Sybprocs.dat with the files you copied for thesource computer in the procedure above.
