Server Farms are huge elephants that require lots of resources for their unique services which can cost as much as installing a server. Servers have to be restored for various reasons such as up gradation of hard wares, installing new software or application or could be of some nasty virus that ruins the entire operating system. There are different methods of system restoration is different computers. Hence it is not easy to cover every server operating system here. Download the specific instructions for those software.
There are two methods of server restoration in an Windows Project Sever 2010. The two methods of restoration are by the way of content databases and web applications. The easiest method of server restoration is by the use of the application the Share Point Central Administration. This application provides an website using which you can restore a server from far away using just a browser. It requires an authorized SQL server account and a central administration pool account that has access of the timer service account. Remember a few things before you restore a server. The different versions of share point are not supported and will lead to compatibility issues. If you have to do it, then you will have to migrate first to the version you prefer. Even after back up, the servers might take a considerable amount of time to use the data to the fullest. The bigger the database, the longer time the servers take to fully be restored. In case of server farms with a large number of connected computers, this might take a day or so depending upon the speed of processing too. And remember to avoid multiple restores from a single backup since doing so will lead to unforeseen problems. It is quite simple to restore a server farm, but it take a very long time to do so unlike a small personal computer.
