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How to clone an instance of SQL Server Reporting Services on the same machine?

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Hello,

We would  like to be able to make side-by-side copies of our LIVE Reporting Services instance for testing purposes.  We have managed to do this by backing up the ReportServer and ReportServerTempDB databases, then restoring them with new names.

However, the renaming of the Reporting Services database (and therefore this approach) is not recommended by Microsoft and caused us a major issue due to references to the database name appearing explicitly in a number of stored procedures.

See here:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlreportingservices/thread/79ebadfe-84e8-48a6-9ac9-18370d190b8a

If we can't rename clones the database, what is the best way to create a duplicate copy of a LIVE SSRS instance on the same machine? I know we could create a TEST environment by make a full copy of the Reporting Services server, and the Database Engine server to prevent TEST and LIVE from interfering from each other, however need to be a bit more granular about this.

Actually, it's just occurred to me that if we used separate TEST and LIVE Database Engine named-instances, we could probably allow the database names for each respective environment to remain the same but just sitting in separate named-instances.  Has anyone done this?

Thanks,

Michael


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