Recommendations for data protection and recovery scenarios (Search Server 2008)

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Applies To: Microsoft Search Server 2008

 

Topic Last Modified: 2009-08-26

Note

Unless otherwise noted, the information in this article applies to both Microsoft Search Server 2008 and Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express.

A system-wide strategy for data protection and recovery should include the plans that you have created for the sites and Web applications in your farm, and address the specific scenarios that you support.

Steps in the planning process include the following:

  • Analyze and summarize the data protection and recovery needs of the sites that support your business scenarios.

  • Select tools that enable you to simplify maintenance and administration.

  • Decide whether you will perform farm-level backups. Many administrators will perform farm-level backups, but your farm might be too large to back up within your maintenance window. Moreover, there might be parts of the farm that are not important to your business. Therefore, you might plan to reassemble your farm from lower-level backups.

  • Determine whether your availability infrastructure provides sufficient protection to reduce the quantity of or the level of backups. Some administrators decide to protect the data by using only availability tools.

Note

If you use Search Server 2008 to index content that is stored elsewhere—such as in Web sites, file shares and other locations—you may have no content that is stored in the Search Server farm. However, even in this situation you should consider how to protect your farm configuration and index from catastrophic failure.

For more information about availability, see Plan for redundancy (Search Server 2008).

The topics in this section include the following:

See Also

Concepts

Plan for backup and recovery (Search Server 2008)
Plan for redundancy (Search Server 2008)