Msmq disaster recovery

Question

I trying to use synchronisation tool (double take) to synchronize the MSMQ storage folder "C:\Windows\System32\msmq\storage"
from one server to another one The problem that once the files moved to the second server, the Message queue service couldn’t be started I found that if I exclude the *.MQ files the synchronization work fine but in this case I will be losing the transactional messages Anybody have a solution to keep the transactinal messages ?

Thank you

Answer 1

MSMQ uses multiple files in the storage directory for transactional messages. Any attempt to copy the storage directory while MSMQ is working on transactional messages is likely to result in files that are not in synch with each other. Only guaranteed way to do this is to stop the MSMQ service first. This is how MQBKUP.EXE works, for example.

Cheers
John