TABLE OF CONTENTS | 3.1 | Plan services for high availability |
| 3.1.1 | Plan a high availability solution that uses clustering service |
| 3.1.2 | Plan a high availability solution that uses Network Load Balancing |
| 3.2 | Plan a backup and recovery strategy |
| 3.2.1 | Identify appropriate backup types. Methods include full, incremental, and differential. |
| 3.2.2 | Plan a backup strategy that uses volume shadow copy. |
| 3.2.3 | Plan system recovery that uses Automated System Recovery (ASR). |
Our final topic for discussion is disaster recovery. We could dedicate an entire book to this topic simply because it is an issue that can make or break your company. Having a disaster recovery plan in place is crucial to an organization's livelihood. Many companies have felt the pain of being unprepared for a major catastrophe. For example, let's say that one of your critical database servers suffers a major hardware catastrophe. All your company's customer records and order information are stored on this system. If you do not have a backup of the information stored on this server, how do you plan to fulfill your customer's orders and bill them for your products if your server is destroyed?
While certain aspects of disaster recovery are beyond the scope of this book, one area that you must be familiar with for the 70-296 exam is backup and recovery. You need to understand the types of backup strategies that are available in Windows Server 2003, how to develop a plan for backing up your data, and the...
