Summary

In this chapter, we discussed planning for disaster, and you read about how to recover in the event of service downtime. Good planning of your infrastructure enables you to take advantage of warm-standby scenarios, and I covered how SharePoint 2010 may leverage SQL clustering, SQL mirroring, and failover.

SharePoint 2010 provides users of the platform with a degree of control over content integrity, via document versioning, and the Recycle Bin to recover deleted lists and list items.

No disaster recovery plan is without a mention of backup and restore of content and configuration. I walked the reader through backup and restore of both content and SharePoint configuration, using Central Admin, PowerShell, and STSADM tools.

Toward the end ...

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