12.6. Suggested Recovery Scenarios

You know how to prepare for the loss or corruption of a site collection, subsite, list, and even a web application or two. You can even recover the server farm data by using the SharePoint backup and restore capability. But what if the entire server goes down? Here are some suggestions on how to handle that based on the knowledge you already have (or should have).

12.6.1. For a Full Recovery of a Single Server Installation

Restore from image or Automated System Recovery (ASR) backup. This means you simply restore the entire server's OS and all applications whole cloth. This scenario assumes that a regular Automated System Recovery backup (see the sidebar at the end of the chapter for step by step information) ...

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