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Published inJan 2011
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ISBN-139781849681087
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Peter Serzo
Peter Serzo
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Peter Serzo

Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
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Introduction


Backup and restore are critical components when working with SharePoint. This is the information age, and for a company, its data is one of its valued assets. Hence, performing a daily backup of the SharePoint 2010 farm is good practice.

There are several environmental conditions in which a restore may be necessary:

  • Disaster Recovery (DR): This is the extreme case, but we cannot anticipate when natural disasters might strike. An organization must be prepared for such disasters and have its processes and data in a separate geographical area.

  • Hardware: Servers run for long durations and have a lot of load. Parts break and become outdated.

  • Data: Data gets deleted and needs to be restored. It is common for users to request for data to be restored. This could be for a variety of reasons, such as data being deleted inadvertently or data that has been archived off the system. The data could be in the root site collection or buried in a subsite.

  • Viruses: Documents are excellent carriers...

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Published in: Jan 2011Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781849681087

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Peter Serzo

Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
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