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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

Apps backup and restore


Apps for SharePoint are small, standalone applications intended to solve a specific business or end user need. Unlike features and solutions, apps for SharePoint can be installed by site owners to individual sites. SharePoint app components are stored in the content databases of the site collections where they are installed, in the farm configuration database, and in the Secure Store Service and App Management service applications.

All of these constructs need to be accounted for during backups and restores, and unfortunately, there is no singular procedure, although either Central Administration or Windows PowerShell can be used to perform all of the individual steps.

Backup

In order to properly back up an app, you have to follow these general steps:

  1. Back up the content databases. Follow the procedure described earlier in this chapter, and visit the following link for additional information: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee428327.aspx.

  2. Back up the farm configuration...