What is the procedures for disaster recovery for the K2 Blackpearl? In the documentation I have found nothing that would help me. Whether someone can describes the procedure to restore K2?
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K2 Blackpearl disaster recovery
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We are having the same question. We are thinking of doing live replication to a standby server of some sorts, but are interested in documentation and how-to's on this. Has anyone tackled this?
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The backup is normally similar to what you would do a 3 tier application. On a simplistic level, it would be:
- Backup web servers
- Backup K2 servers
- Backup databases (There are 14 used by K2 blackpearl, you also need to backup SSRS and also MOSS plus any other custom DBs)
Restore sequence would normally be the reverse:
- Restore databases
- Restore K2 servers
- Restore web servers
- Re-generate system by re-running the configuration manager and obain a new license key.
If you are using standard SQL backup tools, note that the DB backups normally occur at different times. This can cause the various issues if they are not in sync. The best option would be to use an enterprise backup tool with a point-in-time backup/restore option.
As for DR sites, the best options would be to create DNS aliases for your clusters (web, app/K2 , SQL). So as long as these are in place, restoring to different server names is still possible. However, the simplest approach would be to keep the server names the same as production.
As every environment is configured differently with different DR policies, it would be difficult to have a one-all standard DR method that caters for different scenarios. However, from the backup/restore steps listed above, you can probably figure out the best sequence to bring up your DR site to full functionality.
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