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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

DR – on-premise versus cloud


The implementation of disaster recovery has significantly evolved in recent times, from tape-based solutions to collocation and hosted services, to cloud computing and managed service offerings. However, unlike previous DR manifestations, cloud computing takes a fully-virtualized approach to disaster recovery by encapsulating all server resources (operating system, patches, applications, data, and so on) into a virtual bundle, which can then be copied or transferred across environments in minutes. This significantly reduces recovery times when compared to conventional DR approaches, where servers needed to be preloaded with the entire stack, including the operating system, prior to initiating data restoration.

The cloud also makes DR cold sites obsolete, as warm or hot sites become a very cost-effective option that can be easily and permanently architected as part of the application architecture, or spun up on-demand. This implementation is a departure from traditional...