In the previous chapter, you were introduced to the planning concepts of DR and where to start with a DR plan. This chapter introduces you to the activities around creating, testing, and maintaining an effective DR plan for your SharePoint environment. Before creating a test plan, one must have a clear understanding of what each component of your SharePoint farm is, the role it plays, and the threats that each of these components face, that could necessitate the DR plan being exercised.
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A SharePoint farm is a collection of SharePoint servers and SQL servers that work together to provide a set of basic SharePoint services that support a single website.
The ability of multiple servers is to work in conjunction and provide a system with its failover capabilities and load balancing. The servers can also provide readily-available backups that can scale to immense sizes. Useful for DR!
Within a farm, there are several services that run...