Backing up Reporting Services

Things can go wrong unnoticed. An unexpected hardware failure or software failure can damage Reporting Services environment, making it unavailable for users. Database Administrator or Reporting Services Administrator must work on it for fixing or recovering the environment and bring Reporting Services up and running as quickly as possible.

How do we recover if something has damaged the Reporting Services? In order to recover, you need to make sure that you have copies of all required components such as .rdl files, databases, modified configuration files, and encryption keys if used. Do we need a strategy for keeping these components?

Let us see what copies of components we need to keep and how they can easily use for recovering.

Getting ready

Deciding the recovery plan is based on two factors called RTO and RPO. Recovery Time Objective (RTO) refers how long can recover take and RPO; how much data is it acceptable to lost, must be discussed with business users and...