DISASTER TECHNOLOGY: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONTENTS CHAPTER SHAREPOINT DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING AND KEY CONCEPTS THE DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN CONTEXT KEY CONCEPTS AND TERMS ASSESSMENT AND PLANNING DEPENDENCIES AND INTERFACES CHAPTER SHAREPOINT DISASTER RECOVERY DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION WHAT ARE RECOVERY TARGETS? HOW ARE YOUR RECOVERY TARGETS DEFINED? WHAT SHOULD BE RESTORED? WHAT’S OUT OF SCOPE WHAT ARE THE COSTS? ACQUIRING RESOURCES ESTABLISHING A DISASTER RECOVERY BASELINE DOCUMENTING YOUR PROCEDURES FOR AN OUTAGE DEFINING THE COMMUNICATION PLAN DETERMINING SUCCESS SHAREPOINT DISASTER RECOVERY TESTING AND MAINTENANCE DEFINING THE SCOPE OF YOUR OUTAGE ORGANIZING YOUR RESOURCES VERIFYING CHECKLISTS AND PREPAREDNESS ENCOURAGING COMMUNICATION OBSERVING THE TEST VALIDATING THE PLAN REDESIGNING THE PLAN ANALYZING YOUR SYSTEMS: AS-IS/ TO-BE MODIFYING YOUR PLAN EXPECTING AND BUDGETING FOR ONGOING MAINTENANCE SHAREPOINT DISASTER RECOVERY BEST PRACTICES KNOW YOUR SCOPE KNOW YOUR BUDGET KNOW YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE WHAT DOES THE TOOL COVER? WHAT DOESN’T THE TOOL COVER? CAN THE TOOL MEET YOUR RTO AND RPO TARGETS? USABILITY STABILITY NO ONE SIZE FITS ALL WINDOWS SERVER 2008 BACKUP AND RESTORE CUSTOMIZATIONS IIS WINDOWS REGISTRY PROVIDERS AND ADDITIONAL DEPENDENCIES SELECTING A BACKUP APPROACH BACKUP PREREQUISITES FULL SERVER BACKUP INDIVIDUAL COMPONENT BACKUP FULL SERVER RECOVERY RESTORING INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS WINDOWS SERVER 2008 HIGH AVAILABILITY LOAD-BALANCING SOFTWARE LOAD-BALANCING HARDWARE LOAD BALANCING AND SHAREPOINT FARM TOPOLOGY STORAGE SERVER CLUSTERING AND SHAREPOINT NETWORKING AND INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING SQL SERVER 2008 BACKUP AND RESTORE DATABASE RECOVERY MODELS DATABASE BACKUP TYPES BACKUP EXPIRATION SETTINGS BACKUP DESTINATIONS OVERWRITE EXISTING BACKUP MEDIA RELIABILITY CHECKS DATABASE SNAPSHOTS MIRRORED BACKUP MEDIA SETS WHAT’S NEW IN SQL SERVER 2008 BACKUP WHAT CAN BE BACKED UP WHAT CANNOT (OR SHOULD NOT) BE BACKED UP DATABASE SIZING RESTORE DESTINATION OPTIONS RESTORE SOURCE OPTIONS RESTORE OPTIONS RECOVERY STATE OVERWRITING SHAREPOINT WITH A RESTORE OF A SQL BACKUP RESTORING A SQL BACKUP TO A NEW SHAREPOINT ENVIRONMENT THE SERVER COMPONENTS OF LOG SHIPPING LOG-SHIPPING JOBS HOW TO CONFIGURE LOG SHIPPING SHAREPOINT AND LOG SHIPPING LOG-SHIPPING PROS LOG-SHIPPING CONS THE SERVER COMPONENTS OF DATABASE MIRRORING HOW TO CONFIGURE DATABASE MIRRORING SHAREPOINT AND DATABASE MIRRORING DATABASE MIRRORING PROS DATABASE MIRRORING CONS THE SERVER COMPONENTS OF WINDOWS SERVER FAILOVER CLUSTERING CONFIGURING WINDOWS SERVER FAILOVER CLUSTERING SHAREPOINT AND DATABASE CLUSTERING DATABASE CLUSTERING PROS DATABASE CLUSTERING CONS SHAREPOINT 2010 CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION BACKUP AND RESTORE FARM BACKUP AND RESTORE GRANULAR BACKUP CONFIGURATION-ONLY BACKUP BACKUP SETTINGS SERVICES, ACCOUNTS, AND PERMISSIONS FULL BACKUPS VERSUS DIFFERENTIAL BACKUPS USING UNATTACHED CONTENT DATABASES FULL FARM CATASTROPHIC BACKUP SITE COLLECTION BACKUP EXPORTING CONTENT UNATTACHED CONTENT DATABASE DATA RECOVERY RESTORING A FULL FARM RESTORING A CONTENT DATABASE FOR SUBSEQUENT UNATTACHED RECOVERY OPERATIONS RESTORING A SITE COLLECTION OR EXPORTED CONTENT SHAREPOINT 2010 COMMAND LINE BACKUP AND RESTORE: POWERSHELL ACCESSING THE SHAREPOINT 2010 MANAGEMENT SHELL POWERSHELL BACKUP AND RESTORE PREREQUISITES SCRIPTING SHAREPOINT 2010’S BACKUP AND RESTORE CMDLETS BACKUP-SPFARM BACKUP-SPCONFIGURATIONDATABASE BACKUP-SPSITE RESTORE-SPFARM RESTORE-SPSITE EXPORT-SPWEB IMPORT-SPWEB SHAREPOINT 2010 DISASTER RECOVERY DEVELOPMENT THE DARK DAYS BEFORE POWERSHELL ADMINISTRATIVE CAPABILITIES WITH POWERSHELL THE DISCLAIMER THE PRICE OF ADMISSION EXTENDING CATASTROPHIC BACKUP AND RESTORE THROUGH THE SHAREPOINT API EXPORT, IMPORT, AND ASSOCIATED TYPES SITE COLLECTION BACKUP AND RESTORE PROGRAMMATICALLY USING SQL SNAPSHOTS WHAT IS VSS? DEVELOPING SOLUTIONS WITH VSS OBJECT MODEL WALKING EMPLOYING SERIALIZATION SURROGATES STORAGE OF APPLICATION CONFIGURATION DATA STORAGE OF TRANSIENT AND PERSISTENT APPLICATION BUSINESS DATA ACCESSING NETWORK RESOURCES APPLICATION LOGGING AND MONITORING SHAREPOINT 2010 DISASTER RECOVERY FOR END USERS A WORD ON END USERS AND DISASTER RECOVERY TRYING IT OUT HOW THEY WORK RECYCLING IN SHAREPOINT CONFIGURING RECYCLE BINS TYPES OF VERSIONING VERSIONING BENEFITS ADMINISTRATIVE CONCERNS LIST TEMPLATES SITE TEMPLATES SHAREPOINT DESIGNER AND TEMPLATES AN ADMINISTRATIVE PERSPECTIVE ON TEMPLATES HOW WEBDAV AND EXPLORER VIEW ARE USED SERVER AND WORKSTATION CONFIGURATION WHAT CAN IT DO? CONCLUSION