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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

Maintaining your DR plan


Your SharePoint DR plan should be considered a living document, which means that it will continue to evolve over time as your farm continues to grow and new technologies are introduced into the environment.

Over time, you may find that budget constraints that at one point limited your RTO and RPO goals may no longer be a concern and your RTO and RPO goals can be adjusted accordingly, as new funding is made available for things such as a standby datacenter.

You should schedule periodic reviews of the plan and adjust the plan as necessary. It is important to continue to test your SharePoint DR plan as it evolves over time.

For example, you should plan to review your SharePoint DR plan at least once a quarter. You should review all aspects of the SharePoint DR plan, including your recovery targets, RTO, and RPO.

You should plan on performing a full test of your SharePoint DR plan at least once or twice a year, depending upon the size of your organization, number of systems...