Backup and restore

As with troubleshooting, the backup and restore procedures depend on what part of FIM we are talking about. As always, the FIM CM part is basically treated as a standalone product in this case.

Initially, I planned to have many pages in this book dedicated to this topic but realized it would end up being more or less a copy of the online guidelines Microsoft provides. So instead, I will point you to those guidelines and give you a short summary of the main problems I have seen when it comes to backup and restore.

So first of all the guidelines can be found at:

• http://aka.ms/FIMBackup

• http://aka.ms/FIMCMBackup

Now, on to my personal thoughts and experiences, when it comes to the backing up and restoring of FIM.

FIM Sync

The question around FIM Sync is whether to back up the Metaverse or not.

If you back up the database, your entire configuration including the schema and MAs will be in it. But I have found that having a manual export of the configuration together with a backup...