Essential SharePoint 2010: Overview, Governance, and Planning

Chapter 16. Planning for Disaster Recovery: Backing Up and Restoring

When you think of the information that you store in SharePoint, you need to ask yourself, “What would happen if SharePoint suddenly became unavailable?” In other words, does your SharePoint environment provide a mission-critical service to the business? In most cases, the answer is yes.

SharePoint can store a broad range of corporate information including unstructured content (like wikis, blog entries, and discussion threads), semistructured content (like documents and images), and even structured content (list items with fixed columns). Information within SharePoint is delivered in one place, and by default, it is stored in one place. This “single storage” model (actually ...