SAS Content Server synchronization for DR with Prod

[BharathV]

We are setting up DR servers which need to be in sync with Production environment. So we require content server to be in sync along with metadata.

How to synchronize prod content server with DR? What all things need to be considered during synchronization.

[SASKiwi]

As far as I'm aware SAS doesn't provide scripts for synchronisation of environments, So it is up to you to build your own.

What OS do your SAS servers run on? Ours run on Windows Server, so we have Powershell scripts which use Robocopy to do daily metadata and SAS data / applications synchronisation. The SAS Prod server processes need to be closed so up-to-date SAS metadata can be copied, then started up again afterwards. Metadata synchronisation is simply done by copying the OS folders where the SAS metadata is stored. This is a lot easier than exporting and importing content.

What tools you use will most likely depend on your OS and its functionality.

[BharathV]

We are running in Linux environment. We use import export scripts for metadata synchronisation, but content server is not part of metadata.

If we want to use DR both metadata and content server should have same day copy of production. But we are not sure how to be in sync with prod content server.

As you are also using DR, didn’t you setup both metadata and content server synchronisation with prod?

[SASKiwi]

Yes, we have, via overnight synchronisation. That means we are no more than one day behind in DR which we regard as acceptable.for our standard of business continuity.