Best practices are patterns that have proven themselves over and over again as a way to achieve a high quality of your solutions, and it’s completely irrelevant who proposed them.
Hi Trevor, any specific reason why SharePoint should never be installed on any drive other than C:? I am assuming here that SharePoint might search and communicate with system files which are residing already on C: drive in contrast to which if SharePoint is installed on D or E then SharePoint might fail to locate the required system files and start throwing exceptions.
Ah okay. I suppose if you’re backing up logs… Otherwise, there shouldn’t be (unless you have misbehaving developers or need to customize the few email templates you can) anything on the file system of a SharePoint server to back up.
Trevor – I was thinking more the file system back-up (not DB data).
SharePoint backups should be present on the SQL Server for performance, instead of the SharePoint server.
Tough to say isn’t it ?
Here’s the things to think about though .
- Backups … It helps backup scenarios…if they are separate. It’ll be cheaper and quicker to back-up the “C” drive with no logs on it. You don’t necessarily need to back up logs. Less data is quicker, easier to store.
- Speed impact.. What are you logging, everything, or just minimal. If everything and on a busy Farm, you probably need to keep it away from the OS drive. (less I/O)
- Security / Access . Do you want people to access your OS Drive to look at logs. What if they delete the wrong folder ? Do you want shares from C ?
I can’t see why you wouldn’t log to a separate drive if you have one. Best practice ? Don’t know. I will leave it you Admins!
