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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

Chapter 6. Working with Data Sizing and Data Structure

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...