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Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft SharePoint Server Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2018-09-17

Product(s): NetBackup (8.3, 8.2, 8.1.2, 8.1.1)

About backup policies for disaster recovery of SharePoint Server

To provide for full disaster recovery of SharePoint Server, you must create a farm-level backup and a Windows backup of certain file system components. The Windows backup should include the file system where SharePoint Web Parts can be installed and System State directive (Shadow Copy Components). A backup of the System State protects the IIS metadata.

SharePoint backups for disaster recovery

You can create backup policies for disaster recovery of a SharePoint in one of following ways:

Create a MS-SharePoint policy and an MS-Windows policy. The first policy backs up the entire farm, but excludes the Index Files and Search databases from incremental backups. The second policy backs up the components that reside outside of SharePoint.
See Table: NetBackup for SharePoint backup for disaster recovery.
Optionally, you can create another policy if you want to back up the Index Files and Search databases more frequently.
Create two MS-SharePoint policies and an MS-Windows policy. One SharePoint policy backs up the entire farm and excludes the Index Files and Search from full and incremental backups. The other SharePoint policy backs up the Index Files and Search databases. The MS-Windows policy backs up the components that reside outside of SharePoint. See Table: NetBackup for SharePoint backup for disaster recovery, with a separate policy for Index Files and Search databases.

Table: NetBackup for SharePoint backup for disaster recovery

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
Policy B MS-Windows	Shadow Copy Components:\ ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES	Weekly Full Daily Incremental	No	Exclude any databases from this policy. Add the paths for any databases to the exclude list.
(Optional) Policy C 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 C run at different times. Ideally these policies should run on different days.

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

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

Policy B

MS-Windows

Shadow Copy Components:\

ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES

Weekly Full

Daily Incremental

Exclude any databases from this policy. Add the paths for any databases to the exclude list.

(Optional) Policy C

MS-SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint Resources:\Shared Services\Shared Services Applications\Search Service Application name

More than once a week

This policy is optional. If a weekly full backup does not provide adequate protection, adjust the schedule accordingly. Ensure that Policy A and Policy C run at different times. Ideally these policies should run on different days.

Table: NetBackup for SharePoint backup for disaster recovery, with a 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.
Policy C MS-Windows	Shadow Copy Components:\ ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES	Weekly Full Daily Incremental	No	Exclude any databases from this policy. Add the paths for any databases to the exclude list.

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

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

If a weekly full backup does not provide adequate protection, adjust the schedule accordingly.

Policy C

MS-Windows

Shadow Copy Components:\

ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES

Weekly Full

Daily Incremental

Exclude any databases from this policy. Add the paths for any databases to the exclude list.