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So, as I say, we will either do a
VSS or a non-VSS backup depending on whether VSS is
on your system. But, interestingly, it does not matter
which one we actually do. The end
result is going to be the same in terms of structure.
So, the activity is slightly different but the end result
is the same. We are going to be putting the data into these
directories that you see listed right here. So,
imagine --I mean basically, this is
going to be the -- if you imagine, the Root Directory
being the, the backup, so
mypiback, for example, might be the root.
And then within mypiback, within that
Root Directory, we are going to then find
subdirectories:
adm, arch, bin, dat, log, etc,
along with the logs from the
backup. So, all those things are going to be underneath the
name of the directory that you choose to do the backup under.
So, what do we put in there? Well, in the adm directory,
we are going to put those things that are site-specific.
So, and the most typical one of those would be,
or most, I guess
the most
obvious one that we would put in there is something called
my, or pisrvsitestart and sitestop.
These are those files that are site-specific,
and it's where we invoke those things
that will be started and stopped on your particular
system only. It's also where we backup
the -- there's a pisitebackup,
which is where you'd put site-specific backup
information. There's a, there's
a sitestart for when we start PI interactively,
which is generally done for debug purposes. We will discuss that
when we look at the PI Startup.
And, then, some of these other things that are,
are backed up are part of the
backup itself, and those are things that
can be modified, so we make sure we
back those up. We backup the archive files, of course.
Those are the volatile files that'll change all the time as you get new data.
We back up the pipeschd.bat because that actually
contains the scan classes for scheduling or
performance equations. We backup all the
files in the dat directory except a couple of files.
The archive and the annotation files, those are backed up
separately in the arch directory. We back up everything
in the log files, and, and, of course,
we make the
PI backup log files, and back those up as well. Those are the
log files we see right there.