Data Availability Requirements

One of the first steps you need to take before choosing the appropriate backup and restore strategy is defining the availability requirements of your data. You need to understand when your data needs to be accessible for the users, content owners, and administrators of SharePoint Portal Server. Also, analyzing the potential impact of data loss to your business is imperative.

The following questions will help you determine the availability requirements for your SharePoint Portal workspace:

  • At what time of each day is the workspace heavily utilized by users, content owners, and administrators?

  • What are the availability requirements?

  • What is the acceptable downtime?

  • How easy would it be to re-create the data and configuration ...

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