Chapter 21. Backup, Recovery, and Maintenance

In This Chapter Site and SQL Server Backups Site Maintenance Database Maintenance Making the Status Message System Work for You Monitoring Configuration Manager with Operations Manager Services and Descriptions

Chapter 20, “Security and Delegation in Configuration Manager 2007,” discussed security accounts, groups, requirements, and topics such as how to delegate security rights within Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) 2007 and secure ConfigMgr. Security is certainly a critical piece of maintaining a healthy and functional environment. Another critical piece of maintaining a healthy and functional system is ensuring its integrity through backup and recovery processes. All production systems should have established backup and recovery procedures in place, and ConfigMgr 2007 is no exception. It is also important to maintain the currency of your data, and ConfigMgr 2007 provides a number of maintenance tasks to help with this. This chapter discusses best practice approaches to backup, recover, and maintain your Configuration Manager environment.