Restore a Backup in a Clustered Environment

In a clustered environment, servers can allow for failures and can keep data intact, because when a server fails, an automatic failover occurs.

If all services are kept running and data remains accessible, a backup restore would only be necessary in very specific scenarios.

Restoring a backup in a cluster would only be necessary in the following cases:

• Data Corruption (Bad Data)

• Losing the whole cluster - requiring a redeploy of new servers

When restoring a backup on a cluster, the latest backup from the highest weighted secondary database server must be used to ensure the entire cluster (excluding the web certificates) including the database is restored and the cluster is automatically provisioned as part of the restore.