Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft SharePoint Server Administrator's Guide
- Introducing NetBackup for SharePoint Server
- About NetBackup for SharePoint Server
- Features of NetBackup for SharePoint
- SharePoint Server backup operations
- About the contents of a SharePoint Server backup and a SharePoint Foundation backup
- SharePoint Server restore operations
- Limitations on SharePoint Server backups and restores
- NetBackup File System Daemon
- Installing NetBackup for SharePoint Server
- Planning the installation of NetBackup for SharePoint
- Verifying the operating system and platform compatibility
- NetBackup server and client requirements
- SharePoint server software requirements
- Requirements for installing the SQL Server back-end servers in a cluster
- About the license for NetBackup for SharePoint
- Installing and configuring NFS for SharePoint Granular Recovery
- About installing and configuring Network File System (NFS) for SharePoint Granular Recovery
- Requirements for SharePoint Granular Recovery
- Configurations that are supported for SharePoint Granular Recovery
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS)
- Configuring a UNIX media server and Windows clients for backups and restores that use Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- Configuring a different network port for NBFSD
- Configuring NetBackup for SharePoint Server
- About configuring NetBackup for SharePoint
- About a SharePoint non-granular backup vs. a backup that uses Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- Configuring a SharePoint backup that uses Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- Configuring the logon account for the NetBackup Client Service for NetBackup for SharePoint
- Configuring the logon account for the NetBackup Legacy Network Service for NetBackup for SharePoint
- Configuring SharePoint client host properties
- Configuring mappings for restores of a distributed applications, clusters, or virtual machines
- Reviewing the auto-discovered mappings in Host Management
- Performing a manual backup
- Configuring NetBackup for SharePoint backup policies
- About backup policies for granular backup and recovery of SharePoint Server
- About backup policies for SharePoint farm backup and recovery
- About backup policies for disaster recovery of SharePoint Server
- About VMware backup policies that protect SharePoint Server
- About configuring a backup policy for SharePoint
- Performing backups and restores of SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation
- About user-directed backups of SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation
- About restores of SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation
- Specifying the server, client, and the policy type for a SharePoint Server restore operation
- Restore options for SharePoint Server on the Microsoft SharePoint tab
- Restore options for SharePoint Server on the General tab
- How the NetBackup Recovery Assistant restores SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation
- Restoring SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation
- Restoring the SharePoint Search Service Application
- About requirements for restores of individual SharePoint items using Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- Restoring individual SharePoint items from full database backups
- Recovering a SharePoint Web application in a farm with multiple front-end servers
- Restoring a deleted SharePoint list
- Redirecting a restore of a SharePoint web application within a farm
- Redirecting a restore of a SharePoint Web application to another farm
- Redirecting the restore of a SharePoint Server Web application content database to an alternate SQL instance
- Redirecting individual SharePoint items to a file path (SharePoint 2010)
- Protecting SharePoint Server data with VMware backups
- Disaster recovery
- Troubleshooting
- About NetBackup for SharePoint debug logging
- About NetBackup status reports
- Restores to different SharePoint service pack or different cumulative update levels
- Modified system files or ghost files are not cataloged or restored during a site collection restore
- Troubleshooting SharePoint jobs that use Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- About troubleshooting SharePoint restore operations
- About NetBackup for SharePoint and client-side deduplication
- Troubleshooting VMware backups and restores of SharePoint Server
- Index
Restoring individual SharePoint items from full database backups
You can restore individual sites, subsites, documents, images, and list items from the full SharePoint database backup jobs that use Granular Recovery Technology (GRT).
Note:
Granular recovery of the SharePoint Central Administration web site and the Shared Services Administration web site is not supported.
Note:
When you restore an item, it is safe to ignore certain bprd errors in the Activity Monitor similar to the following:
7/12/2007 11:01:39 AM - Error bpdm (pid=2928) did not receive EXIT STATUS from bprd, all blocks may not have been restored
Instead, rely on the final status that is reported in the Activity Monitor to determine the true success or failure of the restore operation.
To restore individual SharePoint items from full database backups
- Enable the SharePoint front-end Web server to restore to the SQL hosts in the farm.
- Log on as Administrator.
- Open the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface.
- Choose File > Select Files and Folders to Restore > from Normal Backup.
- Select the MS-SharePoint policy type.
- Click OK.
NetBackup browses for SharePoint Server backup images.
- From the NetBackup History pane, select the full backup image that contains the items you want to restore.
- In the All Folders pane, expand Microsoft SharePoint Resources.
Note:
When you select items to restore, do not check the checkbox for an item in the All folders pane. Only check the checkbox for an item in the Contents of pane.
- In the Contents of pane, select the item(s) to restore.
Note that security information is restored only if you select a parent folder and not when you select individual items. For example, security information is restored when you select Shared Documents, but not if you select an individual document. However, an individual object can have the user permissions that are defined with a level of "limited access." In this case, permissions for those users are not restored with that object.
The following image shows a SharePoint 2010 restore.
- Choose Actions > Restore.
- In the Restore Marked Files dialog box, click the Microsoft SharePoint tab.
- Choose your restore options, as follows:
If versioning is enabled on the restore destination
Select one of the following options:
Add as a new version
NetBackup restores the existing item as a new version, making it the most recent version of the existing item.
Skip if the item exists
NetBackup does not restore the item if an identical item exists in the restore destination. NetBackup notes that the file was skipped in the job log.
Restore over existing items
NetBackup restores the existing item as a new version and deletes the existing version.
If versioning is not enabled on the restore destination
Select one of the following options:
Skip if the item exists
NetBackup does not restore the item if an identical item exists in the restore destination. NetBackup notes that the file was skipped in the job log.
Restore over existing items
NetBackup replaces the existing item with the restored item.
Restore only the most recent version of an item
Check this option if you only want to restore the most recent versions of any individual items you have selected for restore.
Include security information
Check this option if you want to restore the SharePoint security information that is attached to the items you restore.
- Select the other restore options you want.
- Click Start Restore.
