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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

Virtual environments


As explained in Chapter 1, Planning and Key Concepts – What Not to Forget, with virtualization technology, the server, including the operating system, applications, patches, and data are all encapsulated into a single image or virtual server. This image or virtual server can be backed up to an offsite DR datacentre and restored on another virtual host in a matter of minutes.

With more SharePoint implementations utilizing virtualization, it is important that a SharePoint DR strategy includes steps to take advantage of the backup and recovery capabilities of the virtualization technology your company has purchased. In this chapter, we will cover backup and recovery tools for the two most popular virtualization platforms, Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere 5.

Microsoft Hyper-V

Hyper-V is Microsoft's virtualization platform, available in Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Hyper-V Server 2012. It enables the creation of virtualized...