SharePoint Disaster Recovery notes

STSADM.exe can be used for backing up site collections subsites, pages, document files andlibraries and lists, Security and permission settings, Feature settings NOT for restoring the portal. Use Spsbackup.exe and smmigrate.exe (approved by Microsoft) but very tricky!!! Could use MOSS Back up and restore utility - http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid43_gci1275871,00.html , very good tutorialon how it works. Other resources include http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261687.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/03/09/sharepoint-backup-restore-high-availability-and-disaster-recovery.aspx BRAINSTORM - Use 3rd party back up e.g. Attix 5 to back up databases and MOSS Backup utility to back up the rest, full back up of entire week every friday and incremental every other day. Then in event of site going down we can restore the site using most recent back up. But for fastest restoration, creation of mirror portal to run alongside live portal so site can be restored on mirrored location. Back ups to be stored on seperate server in different location. Must research to prove these concepts!