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Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Disaster Recovery Guide

By : Peter Ward
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Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Disaster Recovery Guide

By: Peter Ward

Overview of this book

Where does it all go wrong with disaster recovery? Yes, why a disaster recovery plan fails the business and costs IT staff their jobs or a promotion? This book is an easytounderstand guide that explains how to get it right and why it often goes wrong. Given that Microsoft's SharePoint platform has become a missioncritical application where business operations just cannot run without complete uptime of this technology, disaster recovery is one of the most important topics when it comes to SharePoint. Yet, support and an appropriate approach for this technology are still difficult to come by, and are often vulnerable to technical oversight and assumptions. Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Disaster Recovery Guide looks at SharePoint disaster recovery and breaks down the mystery and confusion that surrounds what is a vital activity to any technical deployment. This book provides a holistic approach with practical recipes that will help you to take advantage of the new 2013 functionality and cloud technologies. You will also learn how to plan, test, and deploy a disaster recovery environment using SharePoint, Windows Server, and SQL tools. We will also take a look at datasets and custom development. If you want to have an approach to disaster recovery that gives you peace of mind, then this is the book for you.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Disaster Recovery Guide
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
Virtual Environment Backup and Restore Procedures
Index

Chapter 2. Creating, Testing, and Maintaining the DR Plan

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.

Note

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...