Applied Scenario: A Disaster Recovery Plan

This is the beginning of a sample disaster recovery plan. By now, you should realize that people, processes, and procedures are the cornerstones. There are, of course, a range of technical options when it comes to how you will recover your SharePoint farm, and they will constitute a large portion of the rest of this book. At this point, I am describing the elements of a disaster recovery plan that are essential for that technical solution to be put into place.

If you were on the Titanic, your disaster recovery process would consist of the following steps:

  1. Identify the disaster: our ship has struck an iceberg. We will sink in two hours.
  2. Alert the crew to get passengers into life jackets and onto the ...

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