Special Edition Using Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server By Robert Ferguson
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Chapter 13. Backup, Restore, and Duplication
SharePoint Portal Server enables you to deploy multiple copies of your master dashboard site across your organization's network. The benefit to your organization is that users in the local site can access the site content without having to traverse the network. To accomplish this, you will use the backup and restore procedures in the preceding paragraphs to make these copies and restore these images to other remote servers in the same domain.
NOTE
You can compress drives to decrease the amount of network traffic that could occur.
To duplicate a server, do the following:
Use the backup procedures, as described earlier in this chapter in the section "Backup Procedures."
Use the restore process on the backup image to a remote server.
This process can also be automated using scripts with scheduled jobs, scheduling the duplication process to restore the image on the remote server.