BizTalk Server: Disaster Recovery

Introduction

In case a hardware failure will occur, or your BizTalk environment is corrupt you will want to restore that environment. Having a good backup of your BizTalk Server databases and components is essential. BizTalk depends on databases for configuration, tracking, BAM, BRE and messaging, and ability to recover those databases is crucial, but you also need to ability to recover BizTalk Server Instance(s).

Resources

The following list of resources (most targeted for BizTalk 2010) can be beneficial for you in having a solid plan for backing and restoring BizTalk Environment. For backup and restoring BizTalk database see BizTalk Databases: Survival Guide.

MSDN

The following resources are available on MSDN:

• Backing Up a Computer Running BizTalk Server
• Recovering a Computer Running BizTalk Server

Blogs

The following blogs will give guidance on disaster recovery of BizTalk Server:

• BizTalk Server disaster recovery setup
• BizTalk Disaster Recovery Planning
• BizTalk DR: Configuring BizTalk Backup for Disaster Recovery-Part1
• BizTalk DR: Configuring BizTalk Backup for Disaster Recovery-Part2

Other languages

This article is also available in the following languages:

• Norwegian: BizTalk Server: Disaster Recovery (nb-NO)
• BizTalk Server: आपदा से वसूली (hi-IN)

See Also

Another important place to find a huge amount of BizTalk related articles is the TechNet Wiki itself. The best entry point is BizTalk Server Resources on the TechNet Wiki.