Questions tagged [disaster-recovery]
Disaster recovery is the process to restore content and structure after a disaster has happened. To make disaster recovery successful, planning is required.
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Shall we use same service account on DR as Production
I have a production SharePoint farm. Now I am planning to prepare DR farm. Do you think it would be better to create new service accounts for DR or use the same ones as Production?
Both Prod and DR ...
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sharepoint 2016 server down with all progress
I have development SharePoint 2016 farm with 2 servers one SharePoint and one SQL server 2014, SharePoint server is lost and infra team cannot restore it, I have content database can i restore it in ...
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I have development SharePoint 2016 farm with 2 servers one SharePoint and one SQL server 2014, SharePoint server is lost
I have development SharePoint 2016 farm with 2 servers one SharePoint and one SQL server 2014, SharePoint server is lost and infra team cannot restore it,
I have content database can i restore it in ...
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How to prepare Workflow Manger Farm in DR for SharePoint 2016
I Prepared one SharePoint 2016 Farm with Two Servers
One WFE
One APP
In Application Server I installed & Configured Workflow Manager Farm and it created below databases 3 WF farm and 3 for Service ...
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SharePoint 2016 Separate farm for Disaster Recovery preparations
SharePoint Separate farm for Disaster Recovery:
I want to Create Separate 2016 Farm in our company for Disaster recovery (DR).
What are the best practices to Prepare DR SP 2016 farm at SQL Server ...
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SharePoint Online Recover Deleted Security Groups
Is there anyway to recover/restore deleted SharePoint Online Groups? By mistake user has deleted SharePoint groups, I couldn't find in recycle bin also. We can check with Microsoft Team. But, is there ...
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Powershell+Sharepoint Online: Recycle Bin Recovery to Target Path
Using Powershell, I have found it possible to audit and restore the recycle bin using: Get-PnPRecycleBinItem and Restore-PnpRecycleBinItem. What I cannot find though is how I would go about sending ...
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Is there any way to handle disaster recovery for SharePoint Online?
I want to know that whether there is any way to configure disaster recovery for SharePoint Online. Can we restore crashed files or store the SharePoint files in some server? If there is a way, please ...
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How to recover a deleted/restored App Catalog?
Just because I wanted to change the app catalog url, and it's not editable, I decided to delete my app catalog and create it again.
When trying to create it again I got the Something went wrong page.
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Prevent writes from primary farm to DR database after failover?
I have two SharePoint farms, an active and a DR farm, using SQL Availability groups to sync content and some service DBs. In the event of a manual failover, how do I prevent the primary farm from ...
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Is it possible to recover a deleted column from a list in SharePoint 2013?
I accidentally deleted a column from a list that contained a lot of entered data.
I have no backup of this data, is there any way to recover?
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VM snapshots as roll back plan when patching SharePoint Server 2016 farms
I am taking VM snapshots of all SharePoint 2016 and database servers before patching the farm. I am planning that in case there is an issue during or after the patching process at the VM level, I can ...
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Combining HA and DR
The best guidance I've found is this, though I'm having difficulty understanding some aspects of it. A summary of the advice is to create farms such as:
farm 1:
Availability Group 1 with Config ...
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Is using a tool named "Symantec Backup Exec / Veritas Backup Exec" a good appraoch to backup sharepoint application servers and its databases
I am reviewing our backup policy for sharepoint on-premises farms 2013 & 2016. where our IT admins mentioned that they backup all Microsoft applications such as exchnage,sharepoint, sql server, ...
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Best practises for disaster recovery sharepoint farm in sharepoint 2016
Is Stretch SharePoint farm support for DR high availability in SharePoint 2016 or create separate SharePoint farm in disaster recovery?
IF below prerequisites met as per Microsoft, after creating ...
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What specific clustering technology can be used with SharePoint 2016 if I want an Active/Passive setup with Production and DR?
We're trying to set up our SharePoint 2016 infrastructure in a sort of cluster with Production as one part and Disaster Recovery (DR) as another in an active/passive configuration. The goal is that if ...
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SharePoint SQL Server has crashed
Our SharePoint SQL Server has crashed and Infra team installed new OS and SQL services.
Will SharePoint be back after restore the previous configuration db and content databases or do we need to ...
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Move SharePoint Search to dev farm
I am in the process of refreshing a dev farm from production. Typically I do this with database migration approach. I treat services DB's the same as the content DB's. I will take a backup of the ...
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Sharepoint Online - Recover column from lists of project sites
I have a site collection with a lot of subsites attached to projects (each subsite is a site created by a project). Those subsites has a list with its fields.
I executed a PowerShell script that ...
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Setup DR for SharePoint 2010 by simply move one server to DR site
We are running SP2010 enterprise with 4 servers (APP1, APP2, WEB1, WEB2) and 1 SQL cluster.
In order to provide DR ability, we design to move one server (APP2, which is a VM instance) to DR data ...
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How to setup DR on SP2010 with SQL mirroring without witness?
We have a SP2010 enterprise farm. Currently it is using SQL2008R2 with clustering and we planned to add DR on the farm. Due to some technical restriction, we cannot move the 2nd sql server to DR ...
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SharePoint disaster recovery using database mirroring
I'm planning to implement disaster recovery for SharePoint 2013 along with database mirroring. The implementation is as below:
Setup a new single-server SP DR farm
Mirror the database of the ...
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Does Disaster Recovery farm share the same AD with Production farm
I'm new to SharePoint DR and wondering if the DR farm (SP 2013 on-premises) share the same Active Directory with the Production farm (SP 2013 on-premises)? Or there will be other mechanism to ...
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How to recover accidentally deleted ID column from List?
I accidentally deleted the ID from one of my Lists in Sharepoint Designer. There was a Workflow dependent on that ID. I think the ID must still be in the List, but I can no longer see it on any ...
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SharePoint 2013 on high availability - Site collection created not appearing on warm standby farm
We have got SharePoint 2013 on premise with a DR farm on Warm standby and SQL always on high availability. When i create a site collection in an existing content database (which is already added to an ...
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SharePoint 2013 DR - Warm Standby
We have really struggled with our Disaster Recovery processes for our SharePoint farm. I would appreciate any input on improving our current processes. Here is the technology that we're currently ...
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RBS error and unable to upload documents more than 1.5 MB to a database configured with always on/
We are unable to upload a document more than 1.5 MB to a SharePoint content database which is configured RBS storage, and SharePoint data source instance is configured with SQL Server always on and ...
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Content database recovery model rather than Full recovery importance in sharepoint
SharePoint Content Database are configured to run with a different recovery model than Full Recovery,is it important to configure content database recovery model to full recovery.
We have 3 TB size of ...
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Specifying my disaster recovery and backup policy for sharepoint 2013
I have the following inside our live server:-
we have SharePoint server 2013 with enterprise license.
the SharePoint is installed inside windows server 2008 R2.
we have our sql server 2008 R2 ...
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Planning a Sharepoint Backup and Recovery Strategy
I am a SQL Server DBA, but I am confronted with Sharepoint the very first time. To my understanding I can take a full backup once per day via SQL Server and log backups for example every hour.
In ...
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SP2013 and DR - Search App Issue
I have a custom display template and a result type that I am using to modify the display of a people search result webpart. The custom template and the webpart works great in Production.
Now I am ...
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SharePoint 2013 Workflow, log shipping supported?
We plan on implementing log shipping for SharePoint DR environment.
I found details about SharePoint databases and Log shipping support here:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj841106.aspx
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Unable to access sites during a SharePoint DR test
Our company does not have hot DR site for our SharePoint environment. So we are using the process to restore the data to our DR site:
Create all site collections in DR pointing to the same ...
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We just lost our SQL Server due to lost network drives - and we were able to recover.. but wondering
SharePoint 2007 MOSS SP2.
SQL 2005 connected to Network storage.
Network storage crashed and we lost all our data.
Other problems on the SQL server forced us to create a new VM with a fresh SQL ...
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Overwrite the same backup file every day
I want to overwrite the same back up file of an sharepoint 2013 site collection by using the below powershell command line command:
Backup-SPSite -Identity http://xyz -Path D:\SP_BACKUPS\test.bak
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Taking Incremental Back up for SharePoint 2013 Site
We created a task scheduler to run a bat file which has this code to take the incremental back up of the site.
"C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server
Extensions\15\BIN\stsadm"...
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SQL SERVER 2012 high availability and cluster for deploy share point 2013 Internet portal
We have plan to deploy a huge SharePoint 2013 internet portal and we are using sql server back end.
The daily have 500 to 1000 concurrent users and for sql server cluster and high availability and ...
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VM Snapshot recovery of MOSS 2007?
Has anybody ever recovered their MOSS 2007 farm from VM snapshots from the night prior?
MOSS VM, 2 WFE VMs and a SQL 2005 blade.
Say SharePoint becomes corrupted and we just can't fix it. Any good ...
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Apps in a DR farm: ms.sp.int vs ms.sp.ext
During the set-up of a DR farm, we're facing a weird issue with apps. We have both a provider hosted app as well as a sharepoint hosted app deployed to a site using powershell. The apps are also ...
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SharePoint Ultra High Availability
I have a client that just wants 0 scheduled downtime with 0 data loss with our SharePoint 2013 environment.
Our plans included a load balanced 3 tiered farm (2 WFE, 2 App servers, 2 SQL servers (...
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Should I perform scheduled content DB SQL backups in addition to scheduled granular backups?
Currently we have a series of scheduled granular backups for the site collection level that use the PS "Backup-SPSite" command (e.g. https://myportal.com). I test these backups frequently, and have ...
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Best way to turn off SharePoint for clean Point In time backup including the MOSS configuration?
MOSS 2007. Two Web Front Ends Load balanced with MS. One MOSS Server. One SSRS Server which is really a Web Front end. Two SQL Servers Clustered with MS. Content DBs are over a Terabyte so a native ...
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How to provide highly available, disaster recovery solution for SharePoint 2013 deployment?
We need to provide highly available, disaster recovery solution for SharePoint 2013 deployment. For this purpose, we've to build environments for two data-centres, one would be primary DC1 and another ...
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SharePoint Disaster Recovery
I'm working on a Disaster recovery strategy for one of my clients. There are various recommended approaches like cold, warm and hot standby. I'm trying to setup a DR strategy that is similar to Hot ...
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Backing up in bulk for Service Providers
We are a service provider hosting several hundred SharePoint sites and we are trying to figure out the best way to do our backups so that they are viable and helpful.
The problem is that when we do a ...
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How do I fully automate Restore-SPFarm?
I have heard that it is a best practice to maintain a QA environment for SharePoint. I would like to script a nightly restore from our production SharePoint 2013 farm, which I'm successfully backing ...
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SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Planning
We are going to be undertaking a disaster test and will need to be able to bring up our SharePoint 2007 farm in a new environment. The farm consists of one WFE and one Index server. There are about 10 ...
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How to scale out Reporting Services on SharePoint Integrated Mode over NLB
I have a SharePoint 2010 Enterprise farm with the following topology :-
2 WFE SERVER (behind NLB 1)
1 APP SERVER (used for Search)
1 APP SERVER (used for other service applications)
1 DB Cluster ...
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Recovering Test farm after failed SP3 updating
Last week I tried to update our test wss 3.0 farm from SP2 to SP3 in order to use the Permissions reporting tool that came along with the Sharepoint Administration Kit. However, the update failed and ...
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WSS content database restoration problem
A while back, I routinely applied a bunch of updates to our Sharepoint server (SBS 2003 / WSS 3). One of these seems to have put the sharepoint installation into a bad state - I could still access ...
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