This paper has been long in coming and I think they nailed it. Announcing a new whitepaper...
Data protection and recovery for Office SharePoint Server in small to medium deployments
This downloadable white paper explains how administrators managing small-to-medium-size deployments can protect and recover data. It describes data recovery tools and procedures from the item level to the farm level.
Author: Bruno Lancelaeux a Sr. Consultant from OBS.
Although the initial target for this paper was small to medium, the disaster recovery strategies and thoroughness of this 40 page paper including the best information out there on recovering an SSP, recovering any given server in the farm with step by step instructions.
Again, don't let the name fool you. This is the best content that exists on the topic. Sure there might be more info on mirroring elsewhere, but you really need to understand this content to create your baseline. The name also implies we have more to give you, which is true as well.
In addition to the Backup/Restore Paper being out the other huge announcement around backup is the RTM of Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM 2007). Expect to see a lot more information about protecting your SharePoint Servers with DPM 2007 as the team releases detailed whitepapers on backing up your farms and restoring entire farms, databases, lists, and items on a recovery server. Very reasonably priced as well.
Backup/Restore Paper TOC:
- Executive summary
- Levels of data recovery in Office SharePoint Server 2007
- Content recovery
- Versioning
- Recycle Bin
- Site recovery
- Office SharePoint Designer 2007
- Microsoft IT Site Delete Capture feature 1.0 (Web Delete event)
- SQL Server database snapshots
- Disaster recovery
- Office SharePoint Server components
- Binary files
- Configurations
- Customizations
- Content
- Tools for backing up Office SharePoint Server
- Built-in backup and recovery tools
- SQL Server backup and recovery
- Windows Server 2003 Backup tool
- IIS metabase documentation
- Components and backup tools
- Planning your disaster recovery strategy
- Determine likely recovery scenarios
- Recommended backup standards
- Office SharePoint Server components
- How to perform content recovery, site recovery, and disaster recovery tasks
- Content recovery
- Versioning
- Recycle Bin
- Site recovery
- Use Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to back up a Web site
- Use Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to restore a Web site
- Use Microsoft IT Site Delete Capture 1.0 to capture and restore deleted Web sites
- Create and view a database snapshot of an Office SharePoint Server content database
- Content recovery
- Disaster recovery
- Backup procedures
- Recovery
Source : Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog
