Its great We as SharePoint lovers have fantastic news on backup and restore. My company relies on SharePoint for most of the operations. As SharePoint techies we are looking for a better way to protect and recover their collaboration infrastructures. God listens to our prayers, now Microsoft also has listened to our voices and delivered a complete solution with System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007.
It is not only protecting SharePoint also focused on the primary Microsoft server workloads, DPM 2007 was specifically built to protect and recover SharePoint platforms, Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server™, Microsoft Virtual Server, as well as Windows file services. In addition, DPM 2007 blends the best aspects of continuous data protection (CDP) with traditional tape backup. DPM 2007 continuously protects the core Microsoft server workloads to a DPM server, which then provides disk-based recovery and tape-based, long-term archival storage for a complete data protection and recovery solution.
After implementing DPM 2007 SP1 at my office I feel very comfortable and safe, it's like I'm hiring some on who can take care my day to day activities.
Most interesting thing is DPM presents the data to be protected in the same context as users access it. In DPM 2007, platform owners can manage backups from the perspective of the application. SharePoint administrators simply select the farm to be protected; DPM understands what components need to be backed up.
Similarly, SQL Server administrators choose databases, Exchange administrator's select storage groups, and managers of virtual environments choose virtual machines and file server owners choose file shares.
Because DPM was designed specifically for SharePoint, DPM understands the advanced and distributed architectures of SharePoint technologies that often cause other data protection tools to fail:
When the topology changes – DPM adapts. Leveraging the technology within the SharePoint Volume Shadowcopy Service (VSS) writer, when Content Databases on any SQL Server are added/deleted to the SharePoint infrastructure, the DPM server is made aware of it and can adapt. The DPM administrator simply acknowledges the notification within the DPM administrative console and the new server will be protected on the next scheduled SharePoint backup.
SharePoint is diverse – but DPM is consistent. There are several different kinds of data within a SharePoint infrastructure that must all be protected for the farm to be adequately protected – including SQL Server databases, metadata within the web servers and farm configuration server, as well as files that maintain the indexes for Enterprise Search. Data Protection Manager provides a comprehensive backup solution that encompasses all of those data types across multiple platforms, to help deliver a complete backup solution of the entire SharePoint infrastructure.
SharePoint backup can be challenging – DPM makes it simple. Microsoft has heard from our customers that while SharePoint's infrastructure is empowering to its users, many legacy backup products are unable to satisfy their backup goals. To ensure the success and satisfaction of Microsoft SharePoint customers, Microsoft has focused on delivering a reliable protection and recovery solution with DPM 2007 that truly understands the specific needs for SharePoint protection and meets them.
In addition, DPM 2007 also helps protect SharePoint 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services 2.0, which did not provide a native VSS writer capability. To meet those needs, DPM protects the underlying SQL Server databases and the metadata that completes the solution.
How does DPM 2007 protect SharePoint data
After the initial baseline copy of data, DPM routinely performs ―express full‖ backups which utilize the SharePoint VSS writer, and underlying component VSS writers, to identify which blocks have changed in the entire production farm and content databases – and only sends the updated blocks or fragments. This provides a complete and consistent image of the data files on the DPM server or appliance. DPM 2007 maintains up to 512 shadow copies containing only the granular changes between one SharePoint backup and the next.
Restore the SharePoint Farm
The entire configuration from the farm and the content databases can be restored back to the original platform(s) – including the Configuration Database, Administration Content Database and the Content Databases that were backed up in the Point-In-Time selected.
Restore a Content Database
DPM 2007 can restore a single content database back within the SharePoint farm.
Copy to a network folder or tape for archival purposes
One can also simply take the files from SharePoint and restore them to a network folder for manual purposes or to their own tape for archival or delivery to an auditor.
DPM 2007 restores the selected data set into the Recovery Farm, and then properly manages moving that document from the Recovery Farm back in to the production farm – all from within a single DPM recovery wizard.
Restore a Site Collection
Restore a Site
Restore an individual document
Here I have some screen shots of my DPM environment.
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