Strategies for backing up AX Server

As part of a larger disaster recovery plan, you should develop a backup strategy for AX Server to protect your organization against data loss. There are a number of steps that you can take to create backups that you can restore in case of data deletion or corruption.

Things to consider

When planning a backup strategy for AX Server, consider the following with your IT department:

  • what data to backup
  • who needs to be involved
  • how often to backup

Layering backups

Any backup strategy for AX Server should consider three layers of backup to include:

Layer Description More help
System backup such as a virtual machine backup

Work with your IT team to develop recurring backup strategy for the system or environment that hosts your AX Server.

 For information about backing up the system you use to host AX Server, consult that system's documentation.
Database backup

Backup AX Server data on a regular, scheduled basis so that no critical audit data is lost due to technical problems or hardware failures. A planned and verified restore process is also required to ensure data access continuity.

You can backup and restore your production data to a disaster recovery instance of AX Server running on a different machine.

For information about backing up your database, see one of the following:
Application backup

Using AX Client, you can archive collections in a compressed format.

An archived collection is a compressed .zip file that contains all information required to restore the collection. Use archiving to safely store a completed audit collection and then delete the collection from the Server Explorer. If you need access to the collection, you can then restore it.

For more information, see Archiving and restoring collections.