Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft SharePoint Server Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (8.0)
  1. Introducing NetBackup for SharePoint Server
    1.  
      About NetBackup for SharePoint Server
    2.  
      Features of NetBackup for SharePoint
    3.  
      SharePoint Server backup operations
    4.  
      About the contents of a SharePoint Server 2010 and later versions backup and a SharePoint Foundation 2010 and later backup
    5.  
      About the contents of a SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 backup
    6.  
      SharePoint Server restore operations
    7.  
      Limitations on SharePoint Server backups and restores
    8.  
      NetBackup File System Daemon
    9.  
      NetBackup documentation
  2. Installing NetBackup for SharePoint Server
    1.  
      Planning the installation of NetBackup for SharePoint
    2.  
      Verifying the operating system and platform compatibility
    3.  
      NetBackup server and client requirements
    4.  
      SharePoint server software requirements
    5.  
      Requirements for installing the SQL back-end servers in a cluster
    6.  
      About the license for NetBackup for SharePoint
  3. Installing and configuring NFS for SharePoint Granular Recovery
    1.  
      About installing and configuring Network File System (NFS) for SharePoint Granular Recovery
    2.  
      Requirements for SharePoint Granular Recovery
    3.  
      Configurations that are supported for SharePoint Granular Recovery
    4. About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2012 and Windows 2012 R2
      1.  
        Enabling Services for Network File System (NFS) on a Windows 2012 or Windows 2012 R2 media server
      2.  
        Enabling Services for Network File System (NFS) on a Windows 2012 or Windows 2012 R2 client
    5. About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2
      1.  
        Enabling Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2008 or Windows 2008 R2
      2.  
        Disabling the Client for NFS on the media server
      3.  
        Disabling the Server for NFS
    6.  
      Configuring a UNIX media server and Windows clients for backups and restores that use Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
    7.  
      Configuring a different network port for NBFSD
  4. Configuring NetBackup for SharePoint Server
    1.  
      About configuring NetBackup for SharePoint
    2.  
      About a SharePoint non-granular backup vs. a backup that uses Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
    3. Configuring a SharePoint backup that uses Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
      1.  
        Disk storage units supported with SharePoint Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
      2.  
        Limitations and conditions for restores that use SharePoint Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
    4.  
      Configuring the logon account for the NetBackup Client Service for NetBackup for SharePoint
    5.  
      Configuring the logon account for the NetBackup Legacy Network Service for NetBackup for SharePoint
    6. Configuring SharePoint client host properties
      1.  
        SharePoint properties
      2.  
        Specifying the account that logs on to the SharePoint application server
      3.  
        Configuring local security privileges for the SharePoint Servers
      4.  
        Performing consistency checks with NetBackup for SharePoint backups
      5.  
        Consistency check options for SharePoint Server
    7.  
      Configuring restores for a SharePoint farm with multiple servers
    8.  
      Performing a manual backup
  5. Configuring NetBackup for SharePoint backup policies
    1.  
      About backup policies for granular backup and recovery of SharePoint Server
    2.  
      About backup policies for SharePoint farm backup and recovery
    3.  
      About backup policies for disaster recovery of SharePoint Server
    4.  
      About VMware backup policies that protect SharePoint Server
    5. About configuring a backup policy for a SharePoint database
      1.  
        Adding a new NetBackup for SharePoint policy
      2.  
        About policy attributes
      3. Adding schedules to a NetBackup for SharePoint policy
        1.  
          About schedule properties
        2.  
          NetBackup for SharePoint Server backup types
      4.  
        Adding clients to a policy
      5. Creating a backup selections list for a SharePoint Server policy
        1.  
          Performing SharePoint backups with multiple data streams
        2.  
          Using wildcards in a SharePoint backup selections list
      6.  
        Configuring exclude lists for SharePoint clients
  6. Performing backups and restores of SharePoint Server, SharePoint Foundation, and Windows SharePoint Services
    1. About user-directed backups of SharePoint Server, SharePoint Foundation, and Windows SharePoint Services
      1.  
        Specifying the server and client for a SharePoint Server backup operation
      2.  
        About backup options for NetBackup for SharePoint
      3.  
        Performing a user-directed backup of SharePoint Server, SharePoint Foundation, or Windows SharePoint Services
    2. About restores of SharePoint Server, SharePoint Foundation, and Windows SharePoint Services
      1.  
        Specifying the server, client, and the policy type for a SharePoint Server restore operation
      2.  
        Restore options for SharePoint Server on the Microsoft SharePoint tab
      3.  
        Restore options for SharePoint Server on the General tab
      4.  
        How the NetBackup Recovery Assistant restores SharePoint Server, SharePoint Foundation, and Windows SharePoint Services
      5.  
        Restoring SharePoint Server, SharePoint Foundation, or Windows SharePoint Services
      6.  
        Restoring the SharePoint 2010 or later Search Service Application
      7.  
        Restoring the SharePoint 2007 Shared Services Provider
      8.  
        About requirements for restores of individual SharePoint items using Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
      9.  
        Restoring individual SharePoint items from full database backups
      10.  
        Recovering a SharePoint Web application in a farm with multiple front-end servers
      11.  
        Restoring a deleted SharePoint list
      12.  
        Redirecting a restore of a SharePoint web application within a farm
      13.  
        Redirecting a restore of a SharePoint Web application to another farm
      14.  
        Redirecting the restore of a SharePoint Server Web application content database to an alternate SQL instance
      15.  
        Redirecting individual SharePoint items to a file path (SharePoint 2010 or 2007)
  7. Protecting SharePoint Server data with VMware backups
    1. About protecting SharePoint Server data with VMware backups
      1.  
        About the Veritas VSS provider for vSphere
      2.  
        Support and requirements for VMware backups that protect SharePoint Server
      3.  
        Limitations of using a VMware policy to protect SharePoint Server
    2. About configuring a VMware backup that protects SharePoint Server
      1.  
        Installing the Veritas VSS provider for vSphere
      2.  
        Configuring a VMware backup policy to protect SharePoint Server
      3.  
        Configuring the granular proxy host for Federated SharePoint configurations with VMware
    3.  
      Restoring SharePoint data from a VMware backup
  8. Disaster recovery
    1.  
      About disaster recovery of a SharePoint Server
    2.  
      Requirements for disaster recovery of a SharePoint Server
    3.  
      Recovering a SharePoint 2010 and later server (without BMR)
    4.  
      Recovering a SharePoint 2007 Server (without BMR)
  9. Troubleshooting
    1. About NetBackup for SharePoint debug logging
      1.  
        Enabling the debug logs for a NetBackup for SharePoint client automatically
      2.  
        Enabling the debug logging for NetBackup for SharePoint manually
      3.  
        Setting the debug level on a NetBackup for SharePoint Windows client
      4.  
        Veritas VSS provider logs
    2. About NetBackup status reports
      1.  
        Viewing the progress report of a NetBackup for SharePoint operation
    3.  
      Restores to different SharePoint service pack or different cumulative update levels
    4.  
      Troubleshooting SharePoint jobs that use Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
    5.  
      About troubleshooting SharePoint restore operations
    6.  
      About NetBackup for SharePoint and client-side deduplication
    7.  
      Troubleshooting VMware backups and restores of SharePoint Server

NetBackup documentation

For a complete list of NetBackup technical documents for each supported release, see the NetBackup release notes, Administration, Installation, Troubleshooting, Getting Started, and Solutions Guides page at the following URL:

http://www.veritas.com/docs/DOC5332

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The NetBackup landing page on the Veritas Support website contains a list of helpful how-to and product alert topics.