Recovering SharePoint Front-End Web Server

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Applies To: System Center 2012 - Data Protection Manager, System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager, System Center 2012 SP1 - Data Protection Manager

Front-end Web servers for a SharePoint farm can be deployed either on physical computers or on virtual machines such as those found in a Hyper-V virtual environment.

Recovering a Front-End Web Server Deployed on a Physical Computer

To recover a front-end Web server that was backed up by using the Bare-Metal Recovery (BMR) option, see Recovering BMR.

Recovering a Front-End Web Server Deployed on a Hyper-V Virtual Machine

The steps to recover a front-end Web server deployed on a Hyper-V virtual machine are similar to how you recover a virtual machine. For more information, see How to Recover a Virtual Machine.