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Planning Your Platform for Fault Tolerance | Microsoft Docs
06/08/2017
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Planning Your Platform for Fault Tolerance

Microsoft [!INCLUDEbtsBizTalkServerNoVersion] is built on the Microsoft Windows and Microsoft SQL Server platforms. The ability of BizTalk Server to survive or recover from a disaster depends on the ability of the underlying platform to survive or recover.

For your Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) databases and your MessageBox database, we recommend you do the following:

  • Set up fail-over clustering, which is available in SQL Server Enterprise Edition. Fail-over clustering enables SQL Server to automatically switch the processing for an instance of SQL Server from a failed server to a working server.

    The BAM Primary Import database collects event data. In the event of a disaster, data that was written to the BAM Primary Import database since the last backup will be lost. Because there is no way to regenerate lost events, it is especially important that you enable fail over clustering on your BAM Primary Import database.

  • Use SQL Server RAID (redundant array of independent disks), especially for the MessageBox database and the BAM Primary Import database.

Use the following resources to design your Windows and SQL Server deployments for fault tolerance. Take time to learn about hardware and server redundancy technologies, such as clustering and disk mirroring, to prevent service outages and data loss.

Backing Up Your Platform

After you have configured your system, prepare full backups of your servers so you can quickly restore an identical server in the event of data loss.

To back up your platform, perform the documented backup procedures for each of the following technologies:

  • Microsoft Windows Server Standard, Enterprise, or Datacenter Edition

  • Internet Information Services (IIS)

  • Microsoft SQL Server

  • Windows SharePoint Services, which is used by the Windows SharePoint Services adapter.

Follow the recommendations in the “BizTalk Server Operations Guide” for “Backing up BizTalk Server” available at Checklist: Increasing Availability with Disaster Recovery.

Thoroughly test your backup and restore procedures, and put them in a safe, remote location.

See Also

Backing Up and Restoring the BizTalk Server Databases