# How-to guides

Operational guides covering initial setup, deployment to various targets, and ongoing maintenance tasks such as backup, customization, and data management.

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:maxdepth: 2

Create your policies file <create-policy-file>
Deployment <deployment>
Tomcat setup <tomcat-setup>
MySQL setup <mysql-setup>
Backing up your config databases <backingupconfig>
Channel Archiver integration <channel-archiver>
Recovering from a lost appliance <recovery>
Inspecting the Channel Access ( also PVAccess ) protocol <inspectingcapva>
Temporarily suspend using a store <suspendstore>
Dynamic (re)-assignment of PVs to appliances <reassign>
Customization <customization>
Making simple site-specific content changes <site_specific>
Using SQLite as a configuration database <sqlite>
```