Develop a backup plan that enables you to back up each active production database daily. Because the file system portions of the databases are excluded from dump files, perform the file system backups using separate tools.
If you choose database dumping as your backup method, write a script batch file that includes ccmdb dump for each of your production databases. Then, run this script batch file according to your backup plan. The script batch file also can include the file system backup commands, or you can perform the file system backups using a separate script batch file. The latter method does not ensure consistency between metadata and the file system.
You can arrange for incremental backups by running ccmsrv archive at regular intervals. Also, you can augment these incremental backups with logical log backups. You can write the logical log backups directly to tape while the system is running.