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Upgrade Power BI Report Server Recovery Plan
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?
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.
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
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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.
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