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Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 R2 Essentials

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785287589
Length 182 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Backup and recovery


As with any other software in your organization, you'll need to make regular backups of your Orchestrator environment, and once in a while, we suggest you to also verify that the recovery from those backups works as expected. It's always good to have peace of mind regarding this, so we're going to guide you to have a properly functional backup of your Orchestrator environment without doing it completely unaware.

For a complete Orchestrator backup, you'll need to address the following components:

  • Orchestration Database

  • Management Server

  • Runbook Server

  • IIS (Orchestration console and web service)

Let's start with the backup of the Orchestration Database that, as you might recall, is where everything is stored. There's only one catch when backing up the database, that is, you must backup the Service Master Key as well from the SQL Server. This will be required when you're recovering the Orchestration Database on a different, or the same, server after the Service Master Key has...

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