Correct backup procedure

Hi all, I just havea general question I hope you guys could answer.
What is the best way to both backup my Report Development (i.e. visual
studio report project) and also my deployment on the Report Server?
Thanks for any advice.
Kind regards
TazBackup Report Project:
Do file backup (NTBackup Utility) of the folder containing both project
(rptproj), solution (sln), data source (rds) and report definition (rdl)
files.
Or use Visual Source Safe or similar products to have a centralized code
base, and backup that according to best practices for that product.
Backup Report Server:
Do file backup on the config files for Report Manager and Report Server
Do backup of IIS metadata for the virtual directories
Extract the encryption key and save this, using RSKeyMgmt.exe
These two only needs to be done when making changes to the Report Server,
which shouldn't be too often.
Then do SQL backup of the ReportServer database once a day.
Kaisa M. Lindahl Lervik
"Tarun Mistry" <nospam@.nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all, I just havea general question I hope you guys could answer.
> What is the best way to both backup my Report Development (i.e. visual
> studio report project) and also my deployment on the Report Server?
> Thanks for any advice.
> Kind regards
> Taz
>|||Fantastic,
excellent post.
Taz
"Kaisa M. Lindahl Lervik" <kaisaml@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Backup Report Project:
> Do file backup (NTBackup Utility) of the folder containing both project
> (rptproj), solution (sln), data source (rds) and report definition (rdl)
> files.
> Or use Visual Source Safe or similar products to have a centralized code
> base, and backup that according to best practices for that product.
> Backup Report Server:
> Do file backup on the config files for Report Manager and Report Server
> Do backup of IIS metadata for the virtual directories
> Extract the encryption key and save this, using RSKeyMgmt.exe
> These two only needs to be done when making changes to the Report Server,
> which shouldn't be too often.
> Then do SQL backup of the ReportServer database once a day.
> Kaisa M. Lindahl Lervik
>
> "Tarun Mistry" <nospam@.nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:OpTQd092GHA.4924@.TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Hi all, I just havea general question I hope you guys could answer.
>> What is the best way to both backup my Report Development (i.e. visual
>> studio report project) and also my deployment on the Report Server?
>> Thanks for any advice.
>> Kind regards
>> Taz
>