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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

Managing growth


A solid DR plan can evolve into disarray if content database growth is unconstrained. As a content database size increases, the speed to recover slows proportionately. In the previous sections we established the metrics for working within SharePoint limits, and reporting on sizing. Once there is a complete picture of the SharePoint farm, one can take steps to manage its growth.

Note

Recommendation: Monitor database growth on a weekly basis. Any large growth merits a conversation with business users to understand the change in behavior. Often the growth is tied to a new use for SharePoint that can possibly be addressed with a separate dedicated content database to maintain manageable database sizes for rapid DR recovery.

Setting quotas

To set a quota on a site collection, carry out the following steps:

  1. From Central Administration, in the application management section, click on Configure quotas and locks.

  2. Set the Site lock information to Adding content prevented.

  3. Set the Site Quota...