Step-by-Step SharePoint Disaster Recovery
Careful planning is the key to easy recovery, but what if you haven’t been so careful?
“It’s Sunday night, and you just got an urgent call from the office: Your Microsoft SharePoint server is down. After some investigation, you find that the disk array in your only front-end web server is dead. You groan, wishing that you’d implemented a complete farm backup from within SharePoint. However, all is not lost. You know that SharePoint stores all its content in a separate SQL Server machine, and that server is fine. You spring into action, trying to get the environment back up before Monday morning. You ask yourself, What steps do I take? What settings will I lose? Will I get any sleep tonight?”
“This article will answer these questions and more. The recovery discussed is based on the two-server farm mentioned, but the principles also apply to larger farms. The first (crashed) server is running all your SharePoint services (or roles), and the second server is a dedicated SQL Server system. For the purposes of this article, it is assumed that you’re running Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, but most will also apply to Windows SharePoint Services (WSS).
Also assumed is you’re using Windows authentication and Active Directory (AD). Of course, your environment is likely to vary in some way, so these steps won’t be applicable to all situations. Toward the end of the article are some recovery recommendations that you can use today to better protect your SharePoint investment.”
See Step-by-Step SharePoint Disaster Recovery by Randy Williams, from the October, 2009 Edition of Windows IT Pro.
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Tags: Active Directory, AD, Disaster Recovery, SharePoint, SQL
