Backing Up and Recovering SharePoint Components

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services are critical components in a network infrastructure. Great care should be taken to back up their components and content. It would be a tremendous task to re-create customized SharePoint sites, not to mention the document data associated with each one. A good deal of attention should be paid to the backup and restore procedures for a SharePoint farm.

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Although the examples in this chapter focus on the integrated backup and recovery tools in SharePoint, it is highly recommended to employ the use of a third-party backup tool that has been specifically written for SharePoint. This allows for the automation and streamlining of SharePoint ...

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