Microsoft white paper on SharePoint data protection. The link will then allow you to download the 3.2MB Word doc (44 pages). A good overview. The doc describes itself as:
This paper describes content recovery, site recovery, and disaster recovery strategies for small to medium-sized deployments of Office SharePoint Server 2007.
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