If your company relies on Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to manage and deliver information, who will you trust to maximize its protection and recovery?
SharePoint administrators are looking for a better way to protect and recover their collaboration infrastructures. Microsoft has listened to its customers and has delivered a complete solution with System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM).
DPM 2007 is a member of the Microsoft System Center family of management products, which are designed to help IT professionals manage their Windows Server infrastructure. DPM 2007 sets a new standard for Windows backup and recovery—delivering continuous data protection for Microsoft application and file servers to a seamlessly integrated secondary disk and tape solution on the DPM server. DPM enables rapid and reliable recovery through advanced technology for enterprises of all sizes.
On this page, you’ll learn more about:
How to Protect SharePoint with DPM 2007 SP1
How DPM Protects SharePoint Data
After the initial baseline copy of data, DPM routinely performs “express full” backups which utilize the SharePoint VSS writer, and underlying component VSS writers, to identify which blocks have changed in the entire production farm and content databases—and only sends the updated blocks or fragments. This provides a complete and consistent image of the data files on the DPM server or appliance. DPM 2007 maintains up to 512 shadow copies containing only the granular changes between one SharePoint backup and the next.
With only a few mouse clicks, DPM can help you restore data across your system:
Restore the SharePoint farm
The entire configuration from the farm and the content databases can be restored back to the original platform(s)—including the configuration database, administration content database, and the content databases that were backed up in the point-in-time selected.
Restore a content database
DPM can restore a single content database to the SharePoint farm.
Copy to a network folder or tape for archival purposes
You can also take the files from SharePoint and restore them to a network folder for manual purposes or to their own tape for archival or delivery to an auditor.
In addition, perhaps the most exciting features of DPM for SharePoint are a supported way to recover site collections, individual sites, or documents. Unlike approaches by archaic solutions that attempt to inject restored objects directly back into the production farm, but can lead to corruption, DPM 2007 uses only supported methods through the Recovery Farm concept which is designed and supported by SharePoint.
DPM 2007 restores the selected data set into the Recovery Farm, and then properly manages moving that document from the Recovery Farm back in to the production farm—all from within a single DPM recovery wizard.
You can also restore a site collection, a site, and an individual document.
What’s Coming in DPM 2010 for SharePoint
DPM 2010 (currently in beta) adds to the DPM 2007 solution with the following new SharePoint features:
Protection for Office 14 Server, as well as the 2007 and 2003 SharePoint products and technologies
Automatic protection of new content databases
No recovery farm requirement for Office SharePoint Server 2010 (“O14”)
To learn more about DPM 2010 Beta or download it yourself, see the DPM 2010 Beta Overview page.
