Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft SharePoint Server Administrator's Guide

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  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

Configuring a VMware backup policy to protect SharePoint Server

Through a VMware backup policy, NetBackup can create full application consistent backups of a SharePoint Server that resides on a virtual machine. Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) is always available with the VMware policy. For complete details on how to create a policy for SharePoint Server backups in a VMware environment, see the NetBackup for VMware Administrator's Guide.

These instructions describe how to configure a VMware policy with the Enable SharePoint Recovery setting. Alternatively, you can also use Enable SQL Recovery. Do not select both recovery options. If both options are selected, the SQL snapshot preparation fails.

To configure a VMware policy to protect SharePoint Server

  1. Create a new policy or open the policy you want to configure.
  2. In the Policy dialog box, click the Attributes tab.
  3. In the Policy type list, select VMware.
  4. In the Policy storage box, select a disk storage unit.

    If you want to use NetBackup Accelerator, select a PureDisk storage unit type (MSDP or PureDisk). The NetBackup device mapping files list all supported storage types.

  5. To use NetBackup Accelerator, click Use Accelerator.

    Accelerator uses the initial full backup to establish a baseline. Any subsequent backups that are performed with Accelerator can run significantly faster. You may want to create an additional policy schedule that enables the Accelerator forced rescan option. This option establishes a new baseline for the next Accelerator backup.

    Perform block level incremental backups is automatically selected and grayed out. On the VMware tab, the Enable block-level incremental backup option is also selected and grayed out.

    More information on Accelerator is available, See About policy attributes.

    See the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.

  6. On the Clients tab click Select automatically through query.
  7. Select NetBackup host to perform automatic virtual machine selection and the host you want to use.
  8. Use the Query Builder to create a rule(s) that selects the virtual machine(s) you want to back up.

    For more details on the Query Builder, see the NetBackup for VMware Administrator's Guide.

  9. Click the Backup Selections tab.

    This tab displays the query you created on the Clients tab.

  10. Click the VMware tab.

    For details on the options in this dialog box, see the NetBackup for VMware Administrator's Guide.

  11. Check Enable file recovery from VM backup.

    This option must be enabled for application protection of SharePoint Server.

  12. Check Enable SharePoint Recovery.

    This option enables recovery of the SharePoint databases or individual objects from the virtual machine backups. If this option is disabled, you can recover the entire virtual machine from the backup, but you cannot recover the SharePoint databases or objects individually.