SharePoint server has become a very popular enterprise application to enhanced collaboration. As the quantity and value of data stored on SharePoint platform rises, backup and recovery becomes critical and it proves to be a challenge for administrators.
SharePoint offers full farm backup options out of the box: First, the web-based Central Administration backup and restore. Second, command-line backup tool stsadm.exe. Third option is SharePoint Designer. Unfortunately, these three options have some limitations: no true item level restore option (if a single item needs to be recovered, the entire site must be restored), manually front end backup necessarily , high restore time, frustrating command-line utilities, no back up directly to tape, no custom solution files backup, no IIS backup, no alternate access mappings backup.
Because of the intricate nature of SharePoint server and its vital mission, companies investing in the platform should look for reliable backup and recovery solution able to provide complete range of protection. And since out of the box solution does not offer that level of protection, a third-party solution would be a good investment. This article presents most notable third-party backup and recovery solutions available on the market. Did I miss anything? What is your choice for SharePoint backup and recovery? http://www.topsharepoint.com/backup-and-recovery-tools-for-sharepoint
For my actual project I had to find backup solution for our Intranet. I proposed as any other SharePoint Administrator DPM, but my request has been refused. My client wanted to use the actual Backup solution that already was operational. Yes I am speaking about “NETWORKER”. So I went to the official site for reading what EMC could do for me, and saw that I had to install a specific module for backuping my Farm.
“EMC NetWorker Module for Microsoft Applications provides online backup and recovery for Microsoft® Office SharePoint Server and Microsoft® Windows SharePoint Services (WSS). Backup Manager for SharePoint protects your information to support continued operation while providing a safety net to ensure data availability for your compliance needs. Features and Benefits
I wanted to be sure and made some research and the first thing I read wasn’t something positive. You can check the following comment on the following site: http://www.sharepointreviews.com/component/content/article/66-sharepoint-backup-recovery/251-EMC-NetWorker-Module-for-Microsoft-Applications.html
So after multiple meetings and conference calls the Backup Team and AIX team voted for networker (NMM) instead of DPM. For SharePoint Server 2010, NMM provides the following backup and recovery support: Backup of:
Recovery of:
The application data save sets for SharePoint Server 2007 are applicable for SharePoint Server 2010 without any change in the syntaxes. Only the usage type for SharePoint Server 2010 writers, OSearch14 and SPSearch4 VSS writers, has changed from system data to user data. The save set syntax starts With APPLICATIONS: \ rather than SYSTEM COMPONENTS:\. Specify the SharePoint Server 2010 data save sets in the Save Set attribute of a client resource. The following image will show you the lists the SharePoint Server 2010 save set syntax that specifies the supported types of SharePoint Server 2010 data.
Afther putting your save sets on Networker (NMM) you should display a list of the SharePoint Server 2010 save sets that are available for backup:
nsrsnap_vss_save -?
nsrsnap_vss_save -v -?
Each line of output corresponds to a save set entry that you can add to the Save Set attribute of a client resource.
Performing SharePoint Server 2010 backup
Ensure that the following requirements are taken care of before performing SharePoint Server 2010 backups:
application servers, and SQL database servers.
Performing SharePoint Server 2010 full farm recovery You can recover a web application that was completely deleted, but to do this you must first recover SYSTEM COMPONENTS:\ and C:\inetpub before performing the SharePoint Server writer recovery. Only content databases cannot be recovered from a deleted web application.
To perform SharePoint Server 2010 full farm recovery:
A dependency dialog box appears, alerting you to go to the specified hosts and start the recovery processes for the listed components. Note: On the SQL server, recover all the SharePoint databases that are listed in dependency dialog box, like all content databases, configuration databases, search databases, and so on. System databases, like master and model databases, can be excluded during the recovery.
Note: The configuration database must be first selected and recovered, before recovering web applications and service applications.
After configuring our Networker (NMM) I could see this screen on my backup server.
But actually what I wanted to have the following screen. Whatever I did, I couldn’t receive this screen. Multiple reboots, reinstalls, configurations …
You can check here for more information about this screen. http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/white-papers/h4602-sharepoint-backup-wp.pdf Actually each Backup software should backup files, this is the business core of a Backup Software but what me interests is the granular backup of SharePoint. After spending hours of work and brainstorming on one of the PDF that you can download from EMC you can find the following:
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