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SharePoint Backup and Recovery
Business-aware and SLA-driven SharePoint data protection with comprehensive, item-through-platform level support and full fidelity
DocAve Backup and Recovery for Microsoft SharePoint
DocAve Backup and Recovery addresses the need for a fast, flexible, and intelligent backup solution for Microsoft SharePoint. DocAve provides full fidelity backup and recovery, from an individual content item to an entire SharePoint environment and all of its farm-level components, maintaining all metadata, securities, and version histories.
DocAve’s exclusive Business Criticality Matrix automatically classifies SharePoint content according to business importance and usage activity. This allows you to optimize storage and system resources, and execute rule-based backups based on real-time data analyses.
Key Advantages of the DocAve Backup and Recovery
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Intelligent, Business-Aware Protection
The ground-breaking Business Criticality Matrix classifies all SharePoint content by both business criticality and usage activity, and automatically associates it to appropriate backup schedules. This fully customizable tool lets administrators maintain backup routines based on real-time data analyses in order to optimize storage and system resources, while robustly protecting all SharePoint content. Learn more about the Business Criticality Matrix.
True Enterprise-level SharePoint Backup
Protect entire SharePoint environments, from individual items and sites to web applications, content databases, index servers and even IIS settings. Full fidelity backup includes all metadata, securities, version histories, and customized layouts. Unique granular backup scheduling (via the business Criticality Matrix or the fully-customizable conventional scheduler) allows you to run your backup processes according to business needs or organizational timetables. It also automatically detects new SharePoint content and performs scheduled or on-demand full, incremental, and differential backups.
Restore With Minimal Business Interruption and Data Loss
Quickly and easily recover all SharePoint components, databases, indexes, and configurations. Granular, item-level restores from DocAve or SQL Server backups via an intuitive timeline-based Restore Controller enables deft recovery of critical documents, sites or subsites, all able to be processed in a live SharePoint environment during normal business hours. Missing or corrupted information can be instantly restored directly to the original media. Accessible controls via a browser-based interface (integrated with Active Directory) allow designated administrators to monitor all SharePoint farms in the company’s environment 24×7.
Satisfy Stringent RTO’s and RPO’s Within Your SLAs
Complex SharePoint farm configurations and additional components reduce the ability to meet high SLA requirements, specifically recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO). Additional potential failure points make management more complicated. DocAve Backup and Recovery minimizes downtime and data loss and satisfies even the most aggressive SLAs. Learn more about how DocAve responds to SLA requirements.
Reduce Human Errors by Simplifying Full System Backup
DocAve Backup and Recovery safeguards all SharePoint components regardless of where they reside and reduces complexity in any disaster recovery scenario. The elegant Web-based interface provides a holistic view of your entire SharePoint environment and offers a simplified point-and-click approach to selecting the components that need to be protected.
Deployment and Management
Administration of all SharePoint backup, recovery, and management jobs (such as scheduling, monitoring, alerts, user account management, and software agent management across multiple SharePoint farms) is centralized in an elegant web-based GUI. Multi-language support enables global deployment of Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies. In most cases, no additional hardware is required to deploy DocAve Backup and Recovery because it can operate on your existing infrastructure. See backup installation components and a sample scenario.
Ensure Compliance with Government Regulations
Full administrative interface, auditing, and granular error and backup process reporting to customizable user groups makes SharePoint operations audit compliant. Backup and data retention functions help organizations comply with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) or HIPAA. See DocAve Compliance Archiver for additional compliance options.
DocAve Backup and Recovery Technical Overview
Intelligent, Enterprise-Strength Backup and Recovery
- Automatic classification of content according to business importance and usage activity via the Business Criticality Matrix—more critical content is automatically associated with more aggressive backup schedules
- Template Builder for defining reusable, color-coded backup schedules to maintain consistent coverage across your entire SharePoint environment
- Centralized browser-based interface (integrated with Active Directory) supports and integrates ALL your SharePoint environments
- User interface delivers “point & click” tree-mode simplicity to backup and recovery
- Full, incremental, and differential backup capabilities for selective SharePoint farm components enable customers to build backup plans and schedules that focus on frequent backup of high priority data, improving backup operations and storage efficiency
- Auto-Coalescing of Incremental Backups into Full Backups enables storage optimization
- Backup to centrally managed tiered storage location with built-in encryption, compression, and pruning policies—integrate with EMC Centera storage to de-duplicate documents, further optimizing storage resources
- Load balancing across all front-end web servers for efficient resource utilization
- Password protection for safeguarding backup data
- Manage email notification rules via email notification manager
- Monitor real-time progress of any SharePoint backup or recovery processes
- Centralized setup and configuration, software patch and license management, and user account management
- SQL Mirroring provides true redundancy with optional High Availability module
Granular Content and Data Protection
- Supports Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 environments (via DocAve v5), and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (via DocAve 4.5). Support for SharePoint 2001 is available – please contact an AvePoint representative).
- Full fidelity backup and restore of all lists, libraries and items (including Events, Links, Tasks, Contacts, Announcements, Discussion Boards, Surveys, Issues, Custom Lists, Areas, Sub Areas, Portal Links, Workflow Definitions, Layout Templates, and Site Definitions, along with access permissions, metadata and version histories)
- Backs up and restores SharePoint workflow definitions
- Full fidelity item-level restore from DocAve backups, SQL Server backups, or IBM's TDP SQL backups
- Granular, item-level restore with sliding timeline view, along with full text keyword search and identification criteria mask search
- Restore content to different SharePoint instances or locations, including file systems and networked file shares with DocAve's "out-of-place restore" functionality
- Manual and Automated Data Pruning feature helps manage historic SharePoint backup data and improve access speed to more recent backups
- Data Coalescing feature allows collapsing incremental backups into one backup data set for easy retrieval.
- Item-level "out-of-place restore" for complete hardware failure
- Fast granular backup speeds, up to 60GB/hour
Comprehensive Platform Protection
- Backup and recover entire SharePoint farms or selective components including all servers and back-end SQL databases with all configurations, Index/Job servers, as well as front-end IIS settings and file system resources
- Quickly and selectively restore individual or a combination of farm components (content databases, web applications, SSP, etc.)
- Safeguard front-end web server resources (IIS settings, Template files, user selected resources, local file systems, etc.)
- Backup InfoPath form templates, Project Server content and Site Definitions
- Support for SharePoint Features
- Up-to-the-minute restore using SQL logs restoration
- Leverages Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to ensure consistent point-in-time backups
- Fast platform backup speeds, up to 175 GB/hour
- Efficient data streaming via open standards, including VDI and VSS without staging location requirements
DocAve Backup and Recovery allow SharePoint administrators to specify:
| What to backup | Granular selection via a SharePoint-centric URL tree |
| When to backup | Schedule a backup plan via our unique scheduling carousel; schedule up to seven customizable schedules per plan; scheduling options include one-time only, hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly |
| Where to backup | Backup to dedicated DocAve media servers which write data to designated network/local/mapped disk drive/logical drive (selection of drives) |
| How to backup | Full, Incremental, or Differential backup options |
| How to handle backup | Options include: Data retention (pruning and coalescing), Security (128-bit encryption) and Compression (5:1 ratio) |
* Platform Protection capabilities are not available for SPS 2003 or WSS 2.0.
Note: Presently DocAve v5 supports MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 only. For current SPS 2003 and WSS 3.0 support, please utilize DocAve 4.5.
DocAve Backup Resources
DocAve ROI Calculator:
Customer Case Studies:
- Purdue Pharma L.P. Deploys DocAve to Protect and Manage its SharePoint Infrastructure
Discover how industry-leader Purdue Pharma L.P. leverages DocAve to manage and protect business-critical SharePoint infrastructure.
- Police Academy of the Netherlands uses DocAve to Replicate and Protect Mission-Critical SharePoint Data
Learn how The Police Academy of the Netherlands utilizes DocAve Backup and Recovery and DocAve Replicator to synchronize and protect mission-critical SharePoint data.
- Greenbrier Turns to DocAve for SharePoint Data Protection After Other Products Fail to Deliver
Learn why Greenbrier, a leading supplier of transportation equipment and services to the railroad and maritime shipping industries, chose DocAve after the competition failed to adequately protect their mission-critical SharePoint assets.
- Twynham School Relies on DocAve to Protect Valuable SharePoint Data
Learn how Twynham Comprehensive School, a premiere co-educational school located in England, dramatically reduced time and resources required for granular restores and increased flexibility of SharePoint content movement and reorganization.
- Deublin Relies on DocAve to Protect and Manage its Growing SharePoint
Learn how this company accelerated end-user adoption of SharePoint platform, dramatically increased flexibility of SharePoint content reorganizations and reduced time and resources required for granular restores.
- Read how a global banking organization utilized DocAve as an enterprise-strength
solution for granular backup and recovery, reliable real-time replication, centralized administration, comprehensive auditing, and schedule-enabled migration.
Webcast:
- Winning Strategies for Successful SharePoint Backup and Recovery
This webcast discusses both the Pros and Cons of MOSS 2007 native backup tools, and offers recommendations for developing new standards and best practices for truly'Intelligent SharePoint Backup'. View this webcast and learn how to proactively protect your SharePoint data and platform.
White Paper:
- Best Practices for SharePoint Backup and Recovery
This white paper is intended to aid IT administrators responsible for managing Microsoft SharePoint deployments in planning and implementing a comprehensive, reliable, and efficient data protection strategy appropriate to their organizational needs. It outlines the planning, guidelines, and implementation considerations for SharePoint backup and disaster recovery, then briefly reviews the singular attributes of DocAve Backup and Recovery.
- Can Your SharePoint Backup Harm Your Business?
Learn about Microsoft SharePoint's Native Backup Pros and Cons, Evaluation Standards and Best Practices.
- Complete and Integrated Data Protection for SharePoint 2007
Solution Brief
This solution brief will help you evaluate, plan and execute your data protection strategy using DocAve Backup and Recovery and DocAve High Availability Modules. Learn more about how these powerful tools compare to Microsoft SharePoint's native data protection capabilities, including SQL Server backups, Recycle Bin, and Versioning.
Product Information:
- DocAve Backup and Recovery for SharePoint 2007
Product Brochure
Business-aware and SLA-driven Protection with Comprehensive Item- through Platform-Level Support and Full Fidelity Restore - DocAve Backup and Restore for SharePoint 2003
Product Brochure
True Item-Level Full Fidelity Backup & Recovery
Product Demo:
DocAve Backup and Recovery Flash Demo (8:35 mins)
User Guides:
- DocAve v5 User Guide - ALL MODULES
- DocAve 4.5 User Guide - ALL MODULES
- View all User Guides (including User Guides for older versions)
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