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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

Content database backup and restore


Content databases tend to grow at a higher rate than other farm databases, and they are typically backed up separately from farm backups. Content database backups and restores can be performed by using any of the built-in tools. With SQL Server tools, you also have the ability to back up databases to snapshots. With PowerShell, you also have the ability to attach and restore read-only databases. You can also restore content from an unattached content database in SharePoint 2013, which includes granularly restoring sites, site collections, lists, and document libraries without having to attach the content database to the farm.

Back up using the Central Administration GUI

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

  1. Verify the user account requirements. Follow the procedure in the section titled Farm Backup and Restore, or visit TechNet at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee748614.aspx...