Veritas Alta™ SaaS Protection Administrator's Guide
- Section I. Introduction to Veritas Alta™ SaaS Protection
- Section II. Administration portal
- Section III. Manage users and roles
- Section IV. Manage searches/eDiscovery/cases
- Section V. Configure policies
- Section VI. Perform restores
- About restore
- Prerequisites for restore
- Restore dashboard
- Restore Exchange Online mailboxes
- Restore SharePoint Online Sites and data
- Restore SharePoint/OneDrive/Teams Sites and data
- Restore Teams chats and Teams Channel conversations
- Restore Audit logs
- Restore Box data
- Restore Google Drive data
- Restore Gmail data
- Restore Salesforce data and Metadata
- Restore Entra ID objects
- Restore Slack data
- Restore data to File server
- Restore options
- Section VII. Perform data share
- Section VIII. Perform data downloading
- Section IX. Add and configure connectors
- About connectors
- About connectors
- Overview of connectors
- Configuring the capture scope
- Configuring credentials
- Apps Consent Grant Utility
- Exchange Online connector
- Adding Exchange Online connectors
- Configuring the capture scope for Exchange connectors
- Configuring the capture scope for Exchange connectors
- SharePoint Online connector
- Teams Sites collections connector
- OneDrive connector
- Teams chat connector
- Audit log connector
- Google Drive connector
- Gmail connector
- Salesforce connector
- Entra ID (Azure AD) connector
- Box connector
- Slack connector
- EML connector
- Managing connectors
- About connectors
- Section X. Perform backups
- Section XI. Backup limitations
- Section XII. Events
- Section XIII. Manage Stors (Storages)
- Section XIV. Manage Scopes
- Section XV. Manage auditing
- Section XVI. Known Issues
Points to consider when configuring Stubbing policies for SharePoint environments
The Stubbing policy is applied to the following workloads:
SharePoint Online
OneDrive for Business
Teams Site
The Stubbing policy criteria can be customized based on the
, , and of the items.Define any or all of these criteria according to your specific data retention requirements.
When configuring exclusions based on type, you must configure either the last modified date or size criteria.
The Stubbing policy are applied starting from the second full backup, after all the data is successfully backed up during the first full backup.
When you run the second backup, select the
option.The Stubbing policy applies only to full backups and does not affect incremental backups occurring between two full backups.
If both the Delete and Stub policies target the same item, the Delete policy takes precedence and permanently deletes the item from the source SharePoint environment.
The Stubbing policy applies to files within user libraries exclusively based on document libraries and not any other library type.
The Stubbing policy specifically applies to items derived from the document content type.
The Stubbing policy does not apply to the following items:
ASPX files
Links with a .url extension
When a document library in SharePoint has the
setting is enabled.Items for which the sensitivity label is configured for encryption.
You need to contact Veritas Support to stub these items.
For more information, refer to the following Tech Note:
Files in libraries/lists with the Information Rights Management (IRM) setting enabled.
Starting from release 2.26.1, all items in the site that are on legal hold or have a retention policy.
Contact Veritas Support to enable stubbing for these sites.
Starting from the 2.28.1 release, the following items will be skipped for stubbing:
Items in the read-only site.
Items within the retention period configured for the retention label.
Question: What do the stubs look like in the SharePoint web?
Answer: Veritas Alta SaaS Protection replaces the items with URLs and adds
.stub.url
at the end of the URLs.Question: What do the stubs look like in File explorer synchronized with SharePoint site?
Answer: Veritas Alta SaaS Protection replaces items with internet shortcuts and adds
.stub.url
at the end of the item name.Question: When a user accesses a stub file synchronized from SharePoint to File Explorer, does it download the file?
Answer: When the user tries to access the stub file from File Explorer, the user is navigated to Browser, and based on the user permission in Veritas Alta SaaS Protection for Seamless Stub restore, two options can be seen -
and .If the user restores the stub, the stubbed item will be restored to the original item in the Sharepoint site and the File Explorer, and the user can access the file from the File Explorer, which is synchronized with Sharepoint.
If the user opts to download the stub, the file will be downloaded to the
folder. The user can access the file from this folder.
For more information on the end-user workflow when an end-user clicks on a stub, refer to the topic Restore OneDrive/SharePoint stubbed items in the Veritas Alta SaaS Protection End User Guide.
As an administrator, you can control the options available to the end-user. You can direct them to the End-User portal to restore the specific item or initiate the download when a stub is clicked. You can use the following permissions to manage the experience of the end user in restoring or downloading the stubbed items:
: With this permission, when an end-user clicks on the stubbed item, they are redirected to a webpage. On this webpage, an option is available to restore the item to its original location at the time of backup.
: With this permission, when an end-user clicks on the stubbed item, they are redirected to a webpage. On this webpage, an option is available to download the last backed-up version of the SharePoint file to the local computer.
If only this permission is assigned, the download starts when the user clicks the stub.
See Assigning permissions to users.
Both of these permissions are inherently included in the
role.
You can monitor the restore progress on the
.
A SharePoint user with the View permission can restore the file. The user retains the same permissions for the file after restoration as they had on the stub.
If a stub is moved from its original location, the restore fails. An Administrator needs to restore it from the Administration portal.
The last modified date is updated to the current time after restoration or download. This should prevent the item from being picked up by the configured Stub policy if configured based on the last modified time.
Only the last backed-up version of the SharePoint item before the stubbing occurred is restored.
You can monitor the restore progress on the Restore dashboard, but you cannot rerun the restore.
If your tenant is Scope enabled, then clicking on a stub always download the last backed-up version of the SharePoint file to the local computer.