This recently released white paper outlines information about what is required in terms of ensuring your backup and recovery strategies that you put into maintaining of your SharePoint deployment. The white paper addresses the three levels of data recovery in a SharePoint deployment and provides guidance and best practice on what you can plan for in terms of recovery options.

The three levels of recovery available are

• Content recovery - Content deleted by end users that can be recovered via the site level and site collection level recycle bins by site administrators
• Site recovery - Recover sites from accidental data loss or deletion of a site or data corruption which can be performed by server or site administrators
• Disaster recovery - When you need to move servers or recover from a corrupted disk failure or accidental site collection failure usually the task of server administrators

The most important thing to note is that you will need to evaluate your backup and recovery options with your organisation in relation to your business priorities. This is usually depending on how many applications depend on SharePoint and how long can you afford to go without access to your data.

The white paper can be downloaded from the TechNet site. White paper: Data protection and recovery for Office SharePoint Server