If Lync services, with a minimum of disruption and outage, are business-critical for your organization, you should consider implementing paired pools of Front End Servers, as described in Planning for high availability and disaster recovery in Lync Server 2013. The best strategy for dealing with disastrous service interruptions (caused by unmanageable events such as power outages or sudden hardware failures) is to assume they will happen, and to plan accordingly. Validate your backup and restoration processes in advance to make sure that they work as expected.īest Practices for Minimizing the Impact of a Disaster Plan for and schedule periodic testing of the restoration processes that are supported by your organization. Keep the backup files where they will be available, in case you need to restore the data. Make sure that the location where you back up data is secure (we recommend a remote location).

Schedule backups when Lync Server usage is typically low, to improve server performance and user experience. Make sure that the shared folder you plan to use for backing up Lync Server has sufficient disk space to hold all the backed up data. Note that this configuration is backed up in XML format and compressed as a ZIP file. If you use cmdlets or the Lync Server Control Panel to make configuration changes, use the Export-CsConfiguration cmdlet to take a snapshot backup of the topology configuration file (Xds.mdf) after you make the changes, so that you won't lose the changes if you need to restore your databases. Then, if restoration is necessary, the restoration process requires only one backup, and no more than a day’s data should be lost. The simplest and most commonly used backup type and rotation schedule is a full, nightly backup of the entire SQL Server database. Perform regular backups at appropriate intervals. To facilitate your backup and restoration process, apply the following best practices when you back up or restore your data: Best Practices for Backup and Restoration

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