Chapter 12: Configuring SharePoint 2010 for High Availability Backups

What’s In This Chapter?

  • Methods for backing up content and configuration
  • Restoring the information you’ve backed up
  • Keeping SharePoint 2010 online in the face of adversity

It’s terrifying to think about, but someday, something terrible might happen to your SharePoint 2010 servers. Some mean users might delete content that they want back, right now, of course. A hard drive may decide to take an early retirement, or a stray volcano may take out your datacenter. While we all hate to think about it, these things do happen. To fend off that diabolical Murphy, you have to put some plans into place. If you plan accordingly, you can keep your SharePoint 2010 farm safe from any bad luck that might come your way.

Attacks come in different forms and not all organizations need protection from all kinds of failures or problems. Determining which of the world’s evils you want to protect your servers from is the first step. In this chapter we cover the different options you have with SharePoint 2010 out of the box and what kinds of situations they will protect you against.

Determining Your Business Requirements

Business continuity management can be summarized as an organization’s processes and procedures to create and validate a logistical plan outlining how to recover and restore interrupted critical functions within a predetermined time following a disaster or disruption. The predetermined time by which the organization ...

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