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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

Farm backup and restore


A complete SharePoint farm backup will consist of both the configuration and the content. This is a backup of the entire SharePoint environment that is intended to mitigate the possibility of data loss occurring from hardware failures, power outages, environmental disasters, and so on. This level of backup can be performed through the Central Administration GUI, Windows PowerShell, and by using STSADM. Please note that, if you are performing this backup for the first time, you must perform a full backup before you can perform a differential one.

Back up using the Central Administration GUI

To back up a farm by using the Central Administration website, perform the following procedure:

  1. Verify that the user account you are using to perform this operation. The user account performing the procedure must be a member of the Farm Administrators group in the SharePoint farm.

  2. Create a network folder where you can store your backup files. The server farm user account you just verified...