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Keeping Your Content Safe And Sound In Sharepoint

Who is this Todd Klindt guy?

• WSS MVP since 2006
• Speaker, writer, consultant, Aquarius, proud Trans Am owner
• Personal Blog

www.toddklindt.com/blog

• Company web site

http://sharepoint.rackspace.com

• E-mail

todd.klindt@rackspace.com

• Twitter me! @toddklindt
• If you’re not already sick of him
• http://www.toddklindt.com/netcast

Agenda

• Discuss different situations where data is at

risk

• Demonstrate how to protect your data from

each of these risks

What do we mean by DR?

• Content Recovery
• Oh crap, where’s my spreadsheet?
• Disaster Recovery
• Kaboom!
• High Availability
• Business continuity

Worlds Greatest Slide

Items

Files, Calendar items, Contacts, Customers, Images, Custom

Lists

Doc Libs, Pages, Events, Discussions, Surveys, Etc

Webs – SPWeb

Portal, Wikis, Blogs, Team, Doc, Workspaces, Search Center

Site Collections – SPSite

The Bag

Databases – SPContentDatabase

Content Database

Web Applications – SPWebApplication

Central Admin, Content

Servers - SPServer

Web Front End, APP

Farm – SPFarm

Content Recovery

• Bringing back content
• Usually for users that need it IMMEDIATELY!
• Four approaches
• Versions
• Recycle Bin
• PowerShell / STSADM
• Unattached Database Recovery

Content Recovery 1st Defense: Versions

• Not necessarily a disaster recovery method
• Easy to use
• All end user activity, does not require IT or

Development time at all

• Can restrict number of versions kept
• Take up space in site collection quota

Content Recovery 2nd Defense Recycle Bin

• Must be enabled and configured at the Web

Application level

• Two stages
• Captures site collections, webs, list items,

documents, folders lists and document libraries

Content Recovery 3rd Defense Site Backups

• Export-SPWeb

– Content only – Scoped down to the list or library

• Backup-SPSite

– Full fidelity – Scoped at Site Collection

• Can be scripted and scheduled with

PowerShell

• Portable

Fancy PowerShell script

• Get-SPSite | ForEach-Object{$FilePath =

"c:\backups\" + $_.Url.Replace("http://","") .Replace("https://","") .Replace(“-","-- ").Replace(“:","-").Replace("/","-") + ".bak" ; Backup-SPSite -Identity $_.Url -Path $FilePath}

• http://www.toddklindt.com/Scripts

Central Administration Site Backups

• Granular Backup

– Site Collection – Web – List

• Analogous to Export-SPWeb and Backup-

SPSite

• Unattached Database Restore
• Pure Magic

Server Failure - Farm

• What will you do if your server fails?
• Need to decide what to back up

– User Content (Content Databases) – Configuration database – Service Application databases

• What happens if SQL fails?

Server Failure – Local Server

• Files

– SSL certs – Web.config – IIS Config (metabase) – Features (Should be Solutions) – Master Pages – Custom site definitions – Webtemp.xml – Docicon.xml and file icons

Server Failure – Farm Backup

• Can do a Farm level backup from Central

Administration

• Gets all databases and configuration
• Configuration only
• Does database dumps
• Script with Backup-SPFarm

Items not captured by Farm Backup

• Application pool account passwords
• HTTP compression settings
• Time-out settings
• Custom Internet Server Application Programming

Interface (ISAPI) filters

• Computer domain membership
• Internet Protocol security (IPsec) settings
• Network Load Balancing settings
• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates
• Dedicated IP address settings

Business Continuity

• Mirroring support built in
• Need to configure SQL manually

– Transaction Log Shipping – Mirroring – Snapshots

• Failover can be automatic or manual

Other Resources

• Plan for Disaster recovery

– http://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/library/ff628971.aspx

• Plan for Backup and Recovery

– http://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/library/cc261687.aspx