Upgrade Power BI Report Server Recovery Plan

[micheledubose]

Hi,

I plan to upgrade the report server to the latest version by following the steps here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/report-server/upgrade

Is there a documented recovery plan if something goes wrong with the upgrade?

[d_gosbell · Accepted solution]

I have not seen one. We use VM's to host our PBRIS instances, so we simply take a VM snapshot and backup the PBIRS databases, then the recovery plan is simply:

• restore the snapshot and
• restore the databases.
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If you don't have VMs or snapshots of them then your recovery plan would probably involve something like the following

• un-install PBIRS
• install the old version (assuming you kept the installer or can still download it)
• restore the config files
• restore the encryption key
• restore the databases
• re-start PBIRS