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Back up and restore RMS

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Back up and restore RMS

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- [Narrator] If you've watched any of my other courses, you know that I'm a firm believer in backups. I like to see a backup performed after any major change, and that includes the successful initial configuration of a role like RMS. Backing up RMS is not as easy as exporting a service configuration, or copying a folder to an alternate location. RMS is a database application, so it involves both local configuration, and content in a database. There are three things that I need to preserve as part of backing up an RMS cluster. The first is the cluster central key storage password. That password was created during the initial configuration of the first RMS server, and needs to be known or accessible. The second thing you should do during a maintenance window when nothing else is being changed, and that is to export the trusted user domains and the trusted publishing domains to files that can be stored off of the server. This can be done from the RMS server inside the active directory…

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