Setting Up Backup Locations
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 will reach end of support on January 9, 2018. To stay supported, you will need to upgrade. For more information, see Resources to help you upgrade your Office 2007 servers and clients.
To back up your Office Communications Server 2007 data and settings, you must first set up the hardware and software to be used to store and maintain the backed up data and settings. The media and location you use should have been defined in your backup and restoration strategy. At a minimum, you will need to set up the secure location required for regular backups. This location must be accessible for both backup and restoration. Additionally, if your backup and restoration strategy calls for deployment of a separate, secondary site with standby servers, you must also set up that site and ensure that the backup location is accessible from that site.
Setting Up a Secure Backup Location
Install the hardware and software that is required to maintain and store Office Communications Server 2007 data and settings. This includes securing access to the media and content, as appropriate, as well as providing network connectivity between each server to be backed up and the backup media. The backup location can be a local or external site, but must be accessible for backup and restoration.
If your organization is implementing standby servers at a separate, secondary site, when completing all of the backup procedures in this guide, ensure that the backup location is available to the standby servers. To facilitate faster restoration of service in the event of a failure, copy all backups to the secondary site at the time they are done, including the following:
Full backups of SQL databases.
Backups of all file shares for meeting content, meeting content metadata, and meeting content compliance logs.
Backups of settings for each Office Communications Server 2007 server roles.
Note
You can use Windows ASR (automated system recovery) to perform complete backups of all servers, but this guide does not cover this method.
Setting Up a Separate Site for Backup and Recovery
If you are using off-site storage and restoration capabilities at a secure location, set up and test the remote site, including the storage site and, if you deployed standby servers at a different site, the separate site. This includes setting up and testing:
Hardware
Software
Network connection
After setting up and testing the individual components, verify accessibility to the backups from each server including, if you deploy standby servers, from each standby server.
For more information about setting up a separate site with standby servers, see the Restoring Sites section of this guide.