Sharepoint Portal Server Backup Restore Tool

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Share. Point Backup and Recovery . However, backing up and recovering Share. Point data, especially on a granular level, isn't simple. None of the three Share. Point backup tools Microsoft provides (Spsbackup, Stsadm, and Smigrate) let you recover a single file, list item, or document library.

Microsoft leaves granular recovery solutions to third- party vendors. I compare four Share. Point backup and recovery solutions: Symantec Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft Share. Point Portal Server; Comm.

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Vault Galaxy Backup & Recovery; Ave. Point Doc. Ave 3. Share. Point Disaster Recovery (SPDR) 1. Webfox Backup Elite SC V 3. In evaluating these solutions, I assume that a backup plan is in place for servers and other support services, such as Microsoft SQL Server and Exchange Server. I evaluate each solution's ease of use, functionality, price, and expandability. Table 1 provides a detailed, side- by- side comparison of product features.

Symantec Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft Share. Point Portal Server.

Before you install Symantec Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft Share. Point Portal Server, you need to install Symantec Backup Exec 1. Windows Servers. You begin the installation of Symantec Backup Exec 1. Environment Check utility. I like this tool; it revealed some missing items on my system, thus saving me from trying to complete the installation without having all the requisite resources.

The straightforward, surprisingly quick installation described all my options and let me install Backup Exec on both local and remote machines. I had Exchange, SQL Server, and Share- Point Portal Server 2. I installed agents for all of them. I know Exchange isn't part of Share. Point administration, but I wanted to see the agent anyway.

The agent for SQL Server won't back up the Share. Point databases if the Share. Point Portal Server agent has been configured to back them up. This nice touch certainly could save on resources. Software compression was available for my target hard disk, as were options for staging my backups from disk to tape, and I controlled the schedule. The First Startup Wizard walked me through the process of setting the media management defaults, verifying device and drive configurations, adding logon accounts, and setting dates for the backed- up data to be overwritten or discarded.

Media sets permitted easy media management. I found Backup Exec easy to use for a first- timer, and an E- Learning course was included on a CDROM, although I didn't need to use it.

The Share. Point Portal Server agent detects the components of the farm in which it's installed and lets you add other farms to the management console. The agent identifies both Share. Point Portal Server and Windows Share. Point Services databases, which must be backed up together. The agent also automatically backs up the single sign- on (SSO) database and the encryption key and can manage the backup of Share. Point Portal Server 2.

The product backs up the config. Likewise, you're likely to find rebuilding indexes easier and more reliable than restoring them.

You can restore to the same database server or a different one. The restoration process involves rebuilding the farm just as Spsbackup does, unless you're completely restoring all members of the farm from a point- in- time backup of the farm. Backup Exec supports moving backups from disk to tape or to off- site locations, but it seems to treat this process as a separate . It also supports a synthetic backup—a full backup built from a previous full backup and subsequent incremental or differential backups without using the original source files or putting overhead on the source server. Synthetic backups, however, retain only the last approved version of a document. Figure 1 shows the Backup Exec console with the Job Setup tab.

Backup Exec provides standard alerting and reporting capabilities. Alerts include notification by email, pager, or printer. Backup Exec uses Crystal Reports and can distribute reports via email and publish them in HTML or Adobe Acrobat PDF format. The reports can help identify failed jobs and skipped files. Although this product can restore to new locations, it doesn't let you restore individual items from within the Share. Point database. If you already use Backup Exec, adding the Share. Point Portal Server agent for disaster recovery certainly makes sense as long as you realize that you'll need another solution to recover an individual document, document library, site, or site collection.

Summary. Symantec Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft Share. Point Portal Server PROS: Easily configured backup for disaster recovery; can restore to original or other location.

CONS: Full restoration only; no granular recovery of individual items; requires Symantec Backup Exec 1. Windows Server. RATING: 2 out of 5 PRICE: $7.

Backup Exec 1. 0d for Windows Server; $9. Share. Point agent, $2. RECOMMENDATION: If you already use Backup Exec, you can add the Share. Point agent and have a serviceable disaster recovery solution with a minimum investment in software or hardware. You'd need to buy something else for individual item recovery, however.

CONTACT: Symantec Corporation * 4. Galaxy Backup & Recovery. Installing Galaxy Backup & Recovery is straightforward, with options to install agents locally or on remote servers. The Quick Start Guide provides a checklist of information you'll need at various steps of the installation and shows snapshots of the screens you'll encounter. The installation process involves the Comm. Serve software, which manages the media agents and the file system agent.

The media agents you need depend on the backup destination type, which determines the configuration and management of the backup media. The Share. Point agent requires the file system agent. Galaxy includes an optional firewall configuration wizard, which I found to be useful for configuring ports through a firewall for the various remote agents and the Comm. Serve console communications. In Internet and extranet scenarios, you commonly deploy Share. Point components in a screened subnet. Media agents are available to support a variety of backup destinations, including SAN and NAS, and Galaxy supports Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP).

I found it interesting that if your source and destination media are within the same SAN, data transport can occur solely within the SAN rather than using the network. However, I didn't have the equipment or expertise to test this capability.

Galaxy comes with an embedded SQL Server 2. COMMVAULTQINETIX for its database. If you're installing through Terminal Services or on Windows Server 2. Standard Edition, you'll need to install the instance before installing the Comm. Serve component. If Microsoft IIS is installed, you can administer the Comm. Serve console through an optional Web site, which you can create during installation. SQL Server Books Online (BOL) is also available through this Web site.

The console control panel provides tools and wizards for most configuration tasks. Figure 2 shows the Galaxy Backup & Restore management console. I had some difficulty configuring a local hard drive destination until I learned that Galaxy calls disk locations magnetic libraries. After I completed the configuration and backed up my portal and standalone sites, I started exploring the recovery options, and the fun began.

The Browse & Recover tool let me view the latest data and pick any point in time from my backups. I could drill down through my site structure to recover objects at any level, including individual documents.

The Share. Point agent backups let you search for documents by name, version, author, title, and size. You can restore at the original location or to another location or client. When restoring a collection of items (say, a document library), you can choose to either overwrite or skip existing items. So, if a user had deleted some but not all items in a document library, you could restore the entire library but replace only lost items. This is an excellent feature not available in other products.

With version- enabled document libraries, you can recover any version that's been backed up. Like Backup Exec, Galaxy Backup & Recovery supports synthetic backups. Since an individual document version can be restored with Galaxy, it's important to note that the synthetic backup retains only the last approved document in version- enabled document libraries, while Galaxy's standard backups retain all versions. Galaxy also supports SQL Server transaction- log backups.

Managing the transaction logs permits pointin- time restorations, database restoration with transaction log replays, and log shipping to other SQL Server systems. Galaxy Backup & Recovery offers so many backup options that you'll probably need training to take full advantage of them all. The multitude of options also increases the possibility of configuration errors and omissions.

But that power provides both disaster recovery and granular recovery and earns this product my highest rating and the Editors' Choice award. Summary. Galaxy Backup & Recovery PROS: Includes disaster recovery, business continuity, and granular recovery capabilities. CONS: Complex setup and configuration; training is recommended. RATING: 4. 5 out of 5 PRICE: $1. Share. Point Portal Server system, including the agent for Share. Point SQL Server databases.

RECOMMENDATION: Despite the complexity of setup and configuration, Galaxy Backup & Recovery is the most complete solution for disaster recovery and granular recovery in a Share. Point environment.

Highly recommended. CONTACT: Comm. Vault * 7. Doc. Ave 3. 1 and SPDR 1. Ave. Point's Share. Point backup and restore solution comprises two products. Doc. Ave backs up and restores Share. Point data, and Share.

Point Disaster Recovery (SPDR) provides disaster recovery for Share. Point databases. Installation of Doc. Ave was over before I realized that I'd answered all the questions. The entire process required only eight clicks, including accepting the license agreement.