Backup and restore

We have mentioned backup and restore alongside disaster recovery several times in this book because it's very important. In Chapter 2, Planning and Architecture, we showed you how to put together a plan for Disaster Recovery. In Chapter 6, Finalizing the Farm - Going Live, we talked about scenarios that will come up as part of setting up a plan of action that are concerned with content size and other things that need to be considered when implementing this retention plan. Let's talk about this again so that we can feel comfortable that we have everything in place to support the content in the farm.

There are a few options in SharePoint that can help with good content management and security to manage access in a better way than just securing the site collections and using broken inheritance as granular security methods. We don't want to get into using these methods because they slow down migrations, even when using SharePoint as a user. The permissions...