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Plan for disaster recovery

Plan for disaster recovery

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Plan for disaster recovery

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- [Narrator] Disaster recovery is defined as the ability to recover from a situation in which the primary data center that hosts a SharePoint server farm is unable to continue to operate. An effective disaster recovery strategy for a SharePoint server farm must be sufficient to meet your organization's business requirements, which are typically expressed by using two measures. One is the recovery time objective or RTO and the other is the recovery point objective or RPO. RTO and RPO requirements are derived by determining the downtime costs to the organization if a disaster happens. Downtime costs vary significantly between and within industries, especially due to the different effects of downtime. Business size is the most obvious factor, however, it's not the only one. Setting a measure means establishing the nature and implications of the failure. Reduced to its simplest level, a failure of a critical application…

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