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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 5. Central Administration and Other Native Backup and Restore Options

While SharePoint technologies have always provided methods for backing up and restoring data, the scope and capabilities have changed with each SharePoint generation. From the owsadm.exe command line tool in the original SharePoint Team Services (first generation), to unattached content database restores in SharePoint 2010 (fourth generation), backup and restore capabilities have significantly evolved and improved.

This chapter introduces you to native backup and restore options, and how to perform them using the Central Administration console and Windows PowerShell. Although the STSADM command line tool is still included for compatibility support to older versions, it is a deprecated utility, replaced and magnified by PowerShell, and is only referenced in this chapter for completeness.

Generally speaking, SharePoint 2013 backup and recovery operates around the following four primary native options:

  • Farm recovery...