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Resilience

"A stitch in time may save nine."

Gnomologia, Adagies and Proverbs, Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British, Thomas Fuller, 1732

This expression, for those unfamiliar with it, means that one stitch in a piece of cloth to sew up a hole may prevent nine more if it tears. In other words, timely action can prevent more work later on, and who doesn’t like less work?

Resilience is your SharePoint system’s ability to withstand disaster. You can maximize resilience at multiple levels at the same time. The weakest point will ultimately be where the system breaks down, but remember that your goal is to minimize user impact and save the organization money, not to make the most resilient system possible for ...