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Review the Considerations

We recommend to add all Servers, including Web-Front-End Servers, Database Servers, Domain Controllers, and DNS Servers into one Plan with the same backup schedule. As a result, all servers are backed up at almost the same time. This is very important for a distributed environment. While restoring, you can get the same from the Recovery Points that are backed up at the same time for all servers.

Note: If the SharePoint Farm topology is changed, new servers are added to perform load-balance improvement for SharePoint. You must add the new servers immediately to the same plan.