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
About backup policies for SharePoint farm backup and recovery
A farm-level backup provides a complete backup of the SharePoint installation. It does not, however, provide for disaster recovery, as some components must be backed up with an policy. Granular recovery is not available from this type of backup. If you enable granular recovery with this policy, NetBackup backs up only SQL Server objects in the farm.
You can back up a SharePoint farm in one of following ways:
Create a policy to back up the entire farm, but exclude the Index Files and Search databases from incremental backups. Optionally, you can create another policy if you want to back up the Index Files and Search databases more frequently. See Table: NetBackup for SharePoint policy example for full farm backups.
Create two policies. One policy backs up the entire farm and excludes the Index Files and Search from full and incremental backups. The other policy backs up the Index Files and Search databases. See Table: NetBackup for SharePoint full farm backup, with separate policy for Index Files and Search databases.
Table: NetBackup for SharePoint policy example for full farm backups
Policy and policy type | Backup selections | Auto backup frequency | Enable granular recovery | Other configuration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Policy A MS- SharePoint | Microsoft SharePoint Resources:\* | Weekly Full Daily Incremental | No | Exclude the Index Files and Search databases from the incremental backups. For the incremental schedule, add the following directive to the exclude list: Microsoft SharePoint Resources:\Shared Services\Shared Services Applications\Search Service Application name |
(Optional) Policy B MS-SharePoint | Microsoft SharePoint Resources:\Shared Services\Shared Services Applications\Search Service Application name | More than once a week | No |
This policy is optional. If a weekly full backup does not provide adequate protection, adjust the schedule accordingly. Ensure that Policy A and Policy B run at different times, ideally on different days. |
Table: NetBackup for SharePoint full farm backup, with separate policy for Index Files and Search databases
Policy and policy type | Backup selections | Auto backup frequency | Enable granular recovery | Other configuration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Policy A MS-SharePoint | Microsoft SharePoint Resources:\* | Weekly Full Daily Incremental | No | Exclude the Index Files and Search databases from the full and the incremental backups. Add the following directive to the exclude list: Microsoft SharePoint Resources:\Shared Services\Shared Services Applications\Search Service Application name |
Policy B MS-SharePoint | Microsoft SharePoint Resources:\Shared Services\Shared Services Applications\Search Service Application name | Weekly Full | No |
If a weekly full backup does not provide adequate protection, adjust the schedule accordingly. |