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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

Windows Server 2012


This section focuses on the mechanics of performing a backup of the server, using Out of Box (OOB) server tools for backups.

System state data backup

The System State Data (SSD) is an operating system layer that backs up the SharePoint server, which is crucial. It is not enough to just backup your data; the SSD backups maintain a copy of configuration and identity of the server. This includes the following files:

  • The registry

  • COM+ registration

  • Boot and system files

  • IIS meta-directory

In short, this is the most important type of backup because the SharePoint environment works from the SSD configurations. This data also needs to be in sync across all the server environments.

Note

Installation of new programs or hardware is recorded in the registry.

Service packs and hotfixes overwrite the system files; so changes to web configuration may cause an update in the meta-directory.

Tip

Backups of SSD should be performed when significant changes are made in one of the areas stated previously...