We are using Norton for backup, databases are already backed up on the SQL server.

What needs to backed up on the actual BizTalk machine ?

• Edited by btsAdministrator Friday, June 19, 2015 4:44 PM

Hi,

When it comes to BizTalk environment Backup and Disaster recovery, the only official supported option is Log shipping.

BizTalk Server uses multiple databases as part of its runtime requirement.  These databases need to be transactionally consistent (including DTC transactions) at any given point of time to ensure integrity of the server.

As part of this solution, BizTalk uses Marked Transactions (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa577848(v=bts.20).aspx) that guaranties the transactional consistency for all of the databases included in the backup.   As part of the installation/configuration, BizTalk creates a SQL Agent Job that uses SQL log shipping for providing backup/recovery of its databases.  The backup/restore solution is implemented as an external SQL artifact and is not a native functionality/feature of BizTalk server.  The server runtime only expects availability of its databases in a consistent state and does not make any assumptions about the backup/restore mechanism.  The task of securing a backup and restoring the database in a transactionally consistent state is assumed to be an external activity.

Thanks

Abhishek

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