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 Parts break and become outdated.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 This could be for a variety of reasons, such as data being deleted inadvertently or data that has been archived off the system.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...