Cummins S. Pro SharePoint Disaster Recovery and High Availability

2nd Edition. — Packt Publishing, 2013. — 252 p. — ISBN10: 1430263288, ISBN13: 978-1-4302-6328-9.Few IT professionals take the time to learn what needs to be known to do disaster recovery well. Most labor under the pretense that good administration equals close to five-nines uptime. Most technical people do not see the value of planning for disasters until the unexpected has already happened, and the effects of a disaster involving a SharePoint farm — which today houses business information, line-of-business applications, sensitive information, extranets, and other highly important assets — can be staggering.Pro SharePoint Disaster Recovery and High Availability, Second Edition will take you through a step-by-step process to show how to build an awareness and reaction plan for the inevitable. With a focus on real-world experiences and war stories, author Stephen Cummins weaves an expert tale of woe response and offers you:
Ways to see the warning signs of disaster, and ways to avoid it;
Ways to respond to a disaster while it is happening;
Perhaps most importantly, how to develop a plan to deal with disaster when it inevitably does happen.What you'll learn:With Pro SharePoint Disaster Recovery and High Availability, Second Edition, learn and discover:
How to build resilience and high availability into your systems to make them less likely to fail;
How to use technologies like log shipping, clustering and mirroring to replicate data;
How to use redundancy of web front-ends, service applications and other parts of your SharePoint farm to prevent failure;
How companies that realize the cost of disasters create processes to prevent them by tracking and responding to near-misses;
How to implement the right monitoring tools to ensure you are alerted to impending problems as soon as possible;
How to diagnose and repair broken systems, and develop processes to ensure you have backups and a place to restore them to if all else fails.Who this book is for:If you worry about what would happen to your organization if what is in your SharePoint farm was lost, this book is for you. It is a technical book, but parts of it are about the principles of good planning. Other parts are stories of how things have gone wrong (and right) in the field — all of which should be instructive and entertaining for anyone who relies on any technology a great deal in their daily life.