I can say from recent experience that doing a DR on a Primary is pretty painless assuming you have as Jason mentioned good off server backups.
We have the SCCM backup task configured to backup locally then it goes to tape every night. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Sandys Sent: Saturday, 17 August 2013 12:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [mssms] ConfigMgr 2012 and DR/HA Primary sites cannot overlap - multiple primary sites also do not in any way provide (realistic) DR and certainly no HA or site resiliency. Most folks have a good backup and recovery plan for their primary site server (or use their hypervisor's functionality to provide HA - this doesn't help with DR though so good backups are still important). Then, they implement multiple DPs, MPS, and SUPs. Everything else is easy to recreate. J From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeff Poling Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 8:41 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] ConfigMgr 2012 and DR/HA I've read the options for DR/HA - http://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh846246.aspx - and now I am trying to put the concepts to practical use in a design. I realize the answer is different for each organization, but I was wondering what the typical recommendations are for DR/HA considerations with ConfigMgr 2012? My overall design goal in this case was simplicity - single primary site, convert current 2007 secondary sites to 2012 DPs. I could add a CAS and multiple primary sites that overlap, but that adds complexity that is not really needed for an organization with less than 1000 devices. Adding additional site roles - MPs, etc. makes a little more sense. Or I could simply rely on backups, just planning to re-install the primary site and recover from a backup. I am curious what others are doing and how you are handling DR/HA requirements? Thanks, Jeff ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER The information in this transmission may be confidential and/or protected by legal professional privilege, and is intended only for the person or persons to whom it is addressed. If you are not such a person, you are warned that any disclosure, copying or dissemination of the information is unauthorised. If you have received the transmission in error, please immediately contact this office by telephone, fax or email, to inform us of the error and to enable arrangements to be made for the destruction of the transmission, or its return at our cost. No liability is accepted for any unauthorised use of the information contained in this transmission.
