This chapter introduces the reader to SharePoint Disaster Recovery with different data sizing and data structures, and appropriate approaches to different SharePoint deployment scenarios and technical situations.
The reader may be wondering, what does data sizing and structure mean and how does it relate to SharePoint? It refers to the overall design selected that reflects the planned scale of a system. Within the context of a SharePoint farm, looking from the web applications, it is the selection of managed paths, site collections, hierarchy of sites and libraries, and distribution of site collections across content databases, as well as overall standards and system settings.
In most cases in organizations, SharePoint architecture and size limitations are viewed through the business requirements and performance keyhole rather than checking how quickly we can restore data, if there is a problem. This chapter views architecture from the...