Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft SharePoint Server Administrator's Guide
- Introducing NetBackup for SharePoint Server
- About NetBackup for SharePoint Server
- Features of NetBackup for SharePoint
- SharePoint Server backup operations
- About the contents of a SharePoint Server 2010 and later versions backup and a SharePoint Foundation 2010 and later backup
- About the contents of a SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 backup
- SharePoint Server restore operations
- Limitations on SharePoint Server backups and restores
- NetBackup File System Daemon
- NetBackup documentation
- Installing NetBackup for SharePoint Server
- Planning the installation of NetBackup for SharePoint
- Verifying the operating system and platform compatibility
- NetBackup server and client requirements
- SharePoint server software requirements
- Requirements for installing the SQL back-end servers in a cluster
- About the license for NetBackup for SharePoint
- Installing and configuring NFS for SharePoint Granular Recovery
- About installing and configuring Network File System (NFS) for SharePoint Granular Recovery
- Requirements for SharePoint Granular Recovery
- Configurations that are supported for SharePoint Granular Recovery
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2012 and Windows 2012 R2
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2
- Configuring a UNIX media server and Windows clients for backups and restores that use Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- Configuring a different network port for NBFSD
- Configuring NetBackup for SharePoint Server
- About configuring NetBackup for SharePoint
- About a SharePoint non-granular backup vs. a backup that uses Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- Configuring a SharePoint backup that uses Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- Configuring the logon account for the NetBackup Client Service for NetBackup for SharePoint
- Configuring the logon account for the NetBackup Legacy Network Service for NetBackup for SharePoint
- Configuring SharePoint client host properties
- Configuring restores for a SharePoint farm with multiple servers
- Performing a manual backup
- Configuring NetBackup for SharePoint backup policies
- About backup policies for granular backup and recovery of SharePoint Server
- About backup policies for SharePoint farm backup and recovery
- About backup policies for disaster recovery of SharePoint Server
- About VMware backup policies that protect SharePoint Server
- About configuring a backup policy for a SharePoint database
- Performing backups and restores of SharePoint Server, SharePoint Foundation, and Windows SharePoint Services
- About user-directed backups of SharePoint Server, SharePoint Foundation, and Windows SharePoint Services
- About restores of SharePoint Server, SharePoint Foundation, and Windows SharePoint Services
- Specifying the server, client, and the policy type for a SharePoint Server restore operation
- Restore options for SharePoint Server on the Microsoft SharePoint tab
- Restore options for SharePoint Server on the General tab
- How the NetBackup Recovery Assistant restores SharePoint Server, SharePoint Foundation, and Windows SharePoint Services
- Restoring SharePoint Server, SharePoint Foundation, or Windows SharePoint Services
- Restoring the SharePoint 2010 or later Search Service Application
- Restoring the SharePoint 2007 Shared Services Provider
- About requirements for restores of individual SharePoint items using Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- Restoring individual SharePoint items from full database backups
- Recovering a SharePoint Web application in a farm with multiple front-end servers
- Restoring a deleted SharePoint list
- Redirecting a restore of a SharePoint web application within a farm
- Redirecting a restore of a SharePoint Web application to another farm
- Redirecting the restore of a SharePoint Server Web application content database to an alternate SQL instance
- Redirecting individual SharePoint items to a file path (SharePoint 2010 or 2007)
- Protecting SharePoint Server data with VMware backups
- Disaster recovery
- Troubleshooting
- About NetBackup for SharePoint debug logging
- About NetBackup status reports
- Restores to different SharePoint service pack or different cumulative update levels
- Troubleshooting SharePoint jobs that use Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- About troubleshooting SharePoint restore operations
- About NetBackup for SharePoint and client-side deduplication
- Troubleshooting VMware backups and restores of SharePoint Server
About backup policies for SharePoint farm backup and recovery
A farm-level backup provides a complete backup of the SharePoint installation. It does not, however, provide for disaster recovery, as some components must be backed up with an policy. Granular recovery is not available from this type of backup. If you enable granular recovery with this policy, NetBackup backs up only SQL Server objects in the farm.
You can back up a SharePoint 2010 or later farm in one of following ways:
Create a policy to back up the entire farm, but exclude the Index Files and Search databases from incremental backups. Optionally, you can create another policy if you want to back up the Index Files and Search databases more frequently. See Table: NetBackup for SharePoint 2010 and later policy example for full farm backups.
Create two policies. One policy backs up the entire farm and excludes the Index Files and Search from full and incremental backups. The other policy backs up the Index Files and Search databases. See Table: NetBackup for SharePoint 2010 and later full farm backup, with separate policy for Index Files and Search databases.
Table: NetBackup for SharePoint 2010 and later policy example for full farm backups
Policy and policy type | Backup selections | Auto backup frequency | Enable granular recovery | Other configuration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Policy A MS- SharePoint | Microsoft SharePoint Resources:\* | Weekly Full Daily Incremental | No | Exclude the Index Files and Search databases from the incremental backups. For the incremental schedule, add the following directive to the exclude list: Microsoft SharePoint Resources:\Shared Services\Shared Services Applications\Search Service Application name |
(Optional) Policy B MS-SharePoint | Microsoft SharePoint Resources:\Shared Services\Shared Services Applications\Search Service Application name | More than once a week | No |
This policy is optional. If a weekly full backup does not provide adequate protection, adjust the schedule accordingly. Ensure that Policy A and Policy B run at different times, ideally on different days. |
Table: NetBackup for SharePoint 2010 and later full farm backup, with separate policy for Index Files and Search databases
Policy and policy type | Backup selections | Auto backup frequency | Enable granular recovery | Other configuration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Policy A MS-SharePoint | Microsoft SharePoint Resources:\* | Weekly Full Daily Incremental | No | Exclude the Index Files and Search databases from the full and the incremental backups. Add the following directive to the exclude list: Microsoft SharePoint Resources:\Shared Services\Shared Services Applications\Search Service Application name |
Policy B MS-SharePoint | Microsoft SharePoint Resources:\Shared Services\Shared Services Applications\Search Service Application name | Weekly Full | No |
If a weekly full backup does not provide adequate protection, adjust the schedule accordingly. |
You can back up SharePoint 2007 farm in one of following ways:
Create a policy to back up the entire farm, but exclude the Index Files and Search databases from incremental backups. Optionally, you can create another policy if you want to back up the Index Files and Search databases more frequently. See Table: NetBackup for SharePoint 2007 policy example for full farm backups.
Create two policies. One policy backs up the entire farm and excludes the Index Files and Search from full and incremental backups. The other policy backs up the Index Files and Search databases. See Table: NetBackup for SharePoint 2007 full farm backup, with separate policy for Index Files and Search databases.
Table: NetBackup for SharePoint 2007 policy example for full farm backups
Policy and policy type | Backup selections | Auto backup frequency | Enable granular recovery | Other configuration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Policy A MS- SharePoint | Microsoft SharePoint Resources:\* | Weekly Full Daily Incremental | No | Exclude the Index Files and Search databases from the incremental backups. For the incremental schedule, add the following directive to the exclude list: Microsoft SharePoint Resources:\Shared Services name\Shared Search Index |
(Optional) Policy B MS-SharePoint | Microsoft SharePoint Resources:\Shared Services name\Shared Search Index | More than once a week | No |
This policy is optional. If a weekly full backup does not provide adequate protection, adjust the schedule accordingly. Ensure that Policy A and Policy B run at different times, ideally on different days. |
Table: NetBackup for SharePoint 2007 full farm backup, with separate policy for Index Files and Search databases
Policy and policy type | Backup selections | Auto backup frequency | Enable granular recovery | Other configuration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Policy A MS-SharePoint | Microsoft SharePoint Resources:\* | Weekly Full Daily Incremental | No | Exclude the Index Files and Search databases from the full and the incremental backups. Add the following directive to the exclude list: Microsoft SharePoint Resources:\Shared Services name\Shared Search Index |
Policy B MS-SharePoint | Microsoft SharePoint Resources:\Shared Services name\Shared Search Index | Weekly Full | No |
If a weekly full backup does not provide adequate protection, adjust the schedule accordingly. |