Physical Dependencies
The physical dependencies in the event of a disaster are the SharePoint farm itself and the data. Many enterprises implement a DR plan for just data, assuming that the servers and application environment will be manually rebuilt. Manually rebuilding SharePoint is not a simple task. Think again of the complex system metaphors. The answer is to use automated application recovery. DR plans that provide for automated SharePoint application recovery will be able to meet much shorter RTOs than those that just recover data and then depend on administrators to manually rebuild SharePoint. Those plans will also be more reliable and perform more predictably because they will not be as dependent upon the skill of the SharePoint farm ...
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