Checklist: Increasing Availability with Disaster Recovery

This topic describes the steps that you should follow to increase availability of a production BizTalk Server environment using disaster recovery. Disaster recovery is typically implemented after providing high availability with fault tolerance and/or load balancing.

Step Reference

Keep a written record of all changes to your BizTalk Server system.

Ensure that you have appropriate permissions to back up and restore BizTalk Server.

"Minimum Security User Rights" at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=106566

Create a highly available file share for purposes of storing the SQL Server logs. Configure a highly available file share at the hardware level using a SAN and/or at the Windows Server level by using Windows Clustering.

"How to create file shares on a cluster" at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224967

Install and make available one or more standby SQL Server instances as the destination for BizTalk Server log shipping. The hardware for and the number of destination SQL Server instances should match the hardware for and number of SQL Server instances in the production environment. This will ensure that the destination SQL Server instance(s) can handle the same load as the production SQL Serverinstance(s).

Prepare the disaster recovery site.

Prepare the Disaster Recovery Site

Configure BizTalk Server log shipping.

Configuring BizTalk Server Log Shipping

If you are using Business Activity Services (BAS), back up the BAS site and database.

How to Back Up the BAS Site and Database

If you are using Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), back up the BAM databases.

Backing Up the BAM Analysis and Tracking Analysis Server Databases

If you are using BAM, back up the BAM portal application pools and virtual directories configuration information. If you are not using BAM, you do not need to perform this step.

"How to Back Up the BAM Portal" at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=104583

If you are using the Base EDI adapter, back up the Documentshome directory.

"Best Practices for Backing Up the Documentshome Directory" at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=106613

Back up the BizTalk Server configuration file.

"How to Back Up The BizTalk Server Configuration" at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=106596

Steps Reference

Restore the BizTalk group.

Restoring the BizTalk Group

Recover the run-time computers running BizTalk Server.

Recovering the Runtime Computers

Restore the Base EDI adapter.

Restoring the Base EDI Adapter

Recover BAM alerts.

"How to Recover BAM Alerts" at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=106637

Recover the BAM portal.

"How to Recover the BAM Portal" at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=104584

Restore BAS.

Restoring BAS

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