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Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Hybrid Administration

By : Aaron Guilmette
Book Image

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Hybrid Administration

By: Aaron Guilmette

Overview of this book

SharePoint Server is an on-premises collaboration and business productivity platform. It serves as a content management and web services platform, enabling users to create, publish, and discover content and applications and integrate with business systems. This SharePoint book offers complete, up-to-date coverage of the SharePoint Server 2019 interface to help you configure and deploy confidently from the start. With the help of clear and succinct explanations and expert tips, this book covers SharePoint Server and SharePoint Hybrid configuration as well as the process for migrating to Microsoft SharePoint Online. As the book takes you through strategies and techniques for configuring and managing SharePoint on-premises and hybrid scenarios, you’ll get to grips with the concepts essential for SharePoint deployments, such as authentication, Business Connectivity Services, and the data gateway. You’ll also explore migration methods and strategies. By the end of this book, you'll have learned the fundamentals of deploying SharePoint Server 2019 and be able to use this reference guide for your administration tasks.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Planning and configuring backup and restore options

Backups are an important part of designing and maintaining a SharePoint Server environment. The ability to backup and recover data is integral to many business processes, such as the following instances:

  • Recovering or restoring accidentally or maliciously deleted content
  • Platform or service upgrades
  • Migrating between infrastructure solutions
  • Recovering from failed upgrades
  • Recovering from unexpected system failures or disasters

Natively, SharePoint Server supports the following backup designs:

  • Farm
  • Granular
  • Configuration only

Let's examine these backup designs in more detail.

Farm

In a farm backup scenario, you'll be targeting backing up major components of the farm. The farm backup architecture is initiated from Central Administration and launches a SQL Server backup of content and service application databases. It also saves configuration content to files and backs up the Search index data.

A SharePoint farm backup supports...