DR with SQL backups and PSCONFIG

As promised...for my client we are only taking SQL Server backups of the databases used by SharePoint, although we may soon be taking disk image backups as well, but that's another story!

Anyway, I had to put together a DR plan documenting the steps to recover SharePoint. There's a great step by step on how to do this for Project Server, posted here. Great article, but there was one thing I didn't understand after reading this...what about my IIS sites? I wasn't sure if I had to create the IIS sites needed for my web apps before I ran that PSCONFIG CONFIGDB command.

Turns out is is NOT necessary. The first thing that command does is to unprovision the provisioned Central Admin site. We follow a standard deployment guide & use the same ports for Central Admin & the Shared Services Provider on all our installs, so even though I did use that same port in the steps prior to the PSCONFIG CONFIGDB step, not necessary. After unprovisioning the site, the process then creates the web apps, the IIS sites, links in the content databases, even for the SSP. Worked just fine.

Now, one last question...what about SSL? Does that also get configured after the IIS site is created? I doubt it, and I need to ensure the existing server's private key is saved off somewhere so we can reinstall it. I need to do one more test on the DR process, I'll let you know what happens.