The Lync Server 2013 infrastructure is an important part of any organization. Just like any other infrastructure or system, it is important to have a sound backup routine and a well thought through recovery plan.

Even with a fully redundant Lync architecture built to Microsoft Best Practice for High Availability and Failover (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj204703.aspx), we could still be faced with failed replication or database corruption. In departments with many resources, there is also a risk that the configuration or topology could be overwritten unintentionally, or we might just be really unlucky and lose everything.

However unlikely it is, it is critical that there is a proper disaster recovery plan available, including backup and restore. This is what this chapter is all about.

There might be more than one way to create a backup and more than one way to restore. I will focus on the best practice, if there is one, in my walk-through and will talk about other...