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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

Testing your DR plan


After taking the time to create a SharePoint DR plan, the last thing you should do is file it away (outside of your SharePoint environment) and hope you never have to use it. You need to confirm that the plan works as expected, so if or when the time comes to activate the plan, you and the stakeholders have confidence that the plan, if executed properly, will deliver the expected results.

Tip

As a best practice you should test your DR plan on an ongoing basis. It is recommended that larger organizations test their DR plan at least twice a year. Smaller organizations should test their DR plan annually.

Planning your test

Testing your SharePoint DR plan will help you to identify any missing steps, potential problems with existing steps, missing dependencies, and potential bottlenecks. Testing will also help you to determine the timings associated with each step of the recovery plan, so that you know whether the plan will meet your RTO and RPO goals.

It is important to determine...