I'll pretend I work for Microsoft and give you their answer, "It depends." :)
Now my answer. I don't backup my content library on my CAS or primary servers because it will regenerate itself. But if speed were important I would - my SAN and servers are fast and can recreate this quickly. If that isn't the case for you, you should be backing it up each night as well. If you don't care about how long it takes to copy that to a remote DP, then don't worry about it. If that link to the remote is small or if the amount of data is considerable, sure, make a backup at the DP (can you restore that quickly?). MMS MOA NOV _________________ Brian Mason MCTS, MS MVP ECM http://www.mnscug.org/ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ewing, Scott L Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 3:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [mssms] Best practices for SCCM 2012 DP backup & recovery We are running System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 CU3 (5.0.7804.1400). We have a single primary site server and a couple of dedicated distribution point servers in one of our data centers. We also have dedicated distribution point servers in several other locations. In general the same 250 GB of content is on all DPs and the servers are VMWare virtual machines. What is the best practice for backup and recovery of the remote DP servers? Should we backup the content library on each DP to a local backup in each location? Or in the case of a remote DP failure should we just rebuild the server and resend the content from our data center over the WAN? Or something else? What do you do? Scott Ewing Unum Insurance Portland, Maine, USA
