Reporting Services Disaster Recovery

Many organizations now rely on their reporting solutions for day-to-day business as much as the underlying OLTP systems. For some organizations, being able to report on data in real time can be as important as the availability of their underlying OLTP systems. So like any important database solution, you need to plan on how to recover your reporting solution quickly and efficiently, to keep your business running smoothly. For most medium and small companies, that will mean using the tools available to you with SQL Standard Edition.

In this article I will show you how to setup a Reporting Services solution that will allow you to quickly switch from one server to another, should your primary report server / report server database fail or should you need to switch your service to allow you to carry out server maintenance tasks, reducing downtime of the live system.