How many times have you been working on a document, making a system change or trying to code a late-breaking change only to have it all go wrong. We've all had that sinking feeling where we have kicked off a series of events only to wish we could roll back time and make it undo itself. Unfortunately for all of us these things happen and it seems that the first thought that crosses our minds is "Time to polish off the old resume." However, if you have taken some time and prepared for this day all is not lost. Recovering from a SharePoint blunder, accident, or complete disaster is a necessity to prepare for should an organization place value on its intellectual property, employee time utilization or corporate image.

At some point an organization will find itself in the tenuous situation of trying to decide to what extent it should go to recover what's been lost, overwritten, reconfigured, or misplaced. With this in mind SharePoint 2007 has been designed with a number of features and technologies to alleviate and minimize the labor associated with "loss events." As part of the overall backup and recovery strategy for SharePoint we'll cover the various options involved in the Four Thoughts to Recovery Success.