SharePoint Backup

DocAve Backup and Restore Business Case

In order to provide business users with uninterrupted access to critical SharePoint content and instill confidence in platform reliability, organizations must satisfy robust service level agreements (SLAs), stringent recovery time objectives (RTOs), and recovery point objectives (RPOs) to minimize data loss and business disruption for lost or corrupted content. To comply with these strict SLAs, organizations need simple, fast backup and restore solutions for their SharePoint environments.

More and more, organizations are looking for a way to quickly locate and restore lost or corrupted content, and struggling to capture all SharePoint content synchronously while avoiding data corruption or spillage. To easily manage these challenges and develop sound disaster recovery plans, it is imperative to implement a tool and services that ensure resiliency in the face of disaster.

To learn more about the importance of backup and disaster recovery planning for SharePoint, please reference our Governance Solution page.

Business Advantages for Microsoft SharePoint Backup

• True Enterprise-level SharePoint Backup

  Protect entire SharePoint environments, including all web applications, databases, front-end web elements, and content residing in BLOB stores outside of SQL Server via AvePoint's Storage Optimization solutions. DocAve's full-fidelity backup includes all metadata, security settings, version histories, and customized layouts.

• Restore With Minimal Business Interruption and Data Loss

  Quickly and easily recover all SharePoint components, databases, indexes, configurations, and content security. Granularly restore – down to the item-level – from DocAve backups, virtualized databases with InstaMount™ technology, or hardware-based snapshots. Deftly recover critical documents, sites, or subsites directly to the original media. All restores of missing or corrupted content can be processed in a live SharePoint environment during your standard hours of operation without interrupting the flow of business.

• Satisfy the Most Stringent SLAs

  DocAve Backup and Restore satisfies even the most aggressive SLAs by minimizing downtime, data loss, and restore times with unique InstaMount™ technology. Learn more about how DocAve responds to SLA requirements

• Reduce Human Errors by Simplifying Full-system Backup

  DocAve Backup and Restore safeguards all SharePoint components – regardless of where they reside – and reduces complexity in any disaster recovery scenario by providing administrators with a holistic view of entire SharePoint environments, and a simple point-and-click approach to select components that need to be protected. Backups can even be conducted ad-hoc to ensure recently added or modified assets are available in the event of error or disaster.

• Streamlined Deployment and Simplified Management

  Administration of all SharePoint backup, recovery, and management jobs (such as scheduling, monitoring, alerts, user account management, and software management across multiple SharePoint farms) is centralized in a web-based GUI. Multi-language support enables global SharePoint deployments. In most cases, DocAve Backup and Restore can operate on your existing infrastructure, so no additional hardware is required. See backup installation components and a sample scenario

• Ensure Data Availability and Integrity to Comply with Government Regulations

  Full administrative interface, auditing, and granular error and backup process reporting to customizable user groups make SharePoint operations audit compliant. Backup and data retention functions help organizations comply with regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). See DocAve Archiver for additional compliance options

DocAve Backup and Restore Technical Overview

Intelligent, Enterprise-strength Backup and Recovery

• Full, incremental, and differential backup capabilities for selective SharePoint farm components and externalized BLOB stores enable customers to build backup plans and schedules that focus on frequent backup of high-priority data, improving backup operations and storage efficiency
• Define default backup options for efficiency or specify plan specific options as appropriate
• Rapid restore of SharePoint content with AvePoint's InstaMount™ Technology, enabling the fast recovery of individual items to production environment from a full database backup without having to first stage the database
• Granularly restore from hardware-based snapshots to achieve robust RPOs and RTOs
• Centralized browser-based interface (integrated with Active Directory) supports and integrates all of your SharePoint environments, supporting true multi-farm protection
• User interface delivers point-and-click tree or wizard modes to simplify backup and recovery
• Backup to centrally managed tiered storage locations with built-in encryption, compression, and pruning policies – integrate advanced hardware platforms including Dell DX Object Storage, EMC Centera, Hitachi Data Systems, and NetApp, or cloud storage platforms such as Windows Azure and Amazon S3
• Comprehensive support for custom SharePoint applications with platform-level backup and restore of Nintex^® Workflow 2010, KnowledgeLake^® Imaging for SharePoint 2010, NewsGator Social Sites^® for Microsoft SharePoint 2010, as well as any custom application databases
• Load balancing across all front-end web servers for efficient resource utilization
• Password protection for safeguarding backup data
• Advanced email notifications for detailed and summary information
• Monitor real-time progress of any SharePoint backup or recovery processes, and maintain graphical insight into backup disc space usage and farm coverage
• Centralized setup and configuration, software patch and license management, and user account management

Granular Content and Data Protection

• Supports SharePoint 2013 & 2010 and Microsoft Office 365 SharePoint Online site collections, sites, lists/libraries, and individual objects . For Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 environments, SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Windows SharePoint Services 2.0, and SharePoint 2001 support – please contact an AvePoint representative.
• Full-fidelity backup and restore of all lists, libraries and items (including Events, Links, Tasks, Contacts, Announcements, Discussion Boards, Surveys, Issues, Custom Lists, Areas, Sub Areas, Portal Links, Workflow Definition and instance, Layout Templates, and Site Definitions, along with access permissions, metadata and version histories)
• Granular, item-level restore with calendar view and identification criteria
• Restore content to different SharePoint instances or locations, including file systems and networked file shares with Backup and Restore's "out-of-place restore" functionality
• Manual and automated data pruning feature helps manage historic SharePoint backup data and improve access speed to more recent backups
• Item-level "out-of-place restore" for complete hardware failure
• Fast granular backup speeds, up to 30GB/hour

Comprehensive Platform Protection

• Backup and recover entire SharePoint farms or selective components, including all servers and back-end SQL databases with configurations and Index/Job servers, as well as front-end IIS settings, file system resources, and custom application
• Fast platform backup speeds with advanced volume shadow-copy service (VSS) technology, up to 150 GB/hour
• Quickly and selectively restore individual or a combination of farm components (including content databases, web applications, and SSP)
• Safeguard front-end web server resources (including IIS settings, Template files, user selected resources, and local file systems)
• Backup InfoPath form templates, Project Server content, Site Definitions, and SharePoint features
• Up-to-the-minute restore using SQL logs restoration
• Utilizes Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to ensure consistent point-in-time backups
• Efficient data streaming via open standards, including VDI and VSS, without staging location requirements
• InstaMount™ technology enables fast item level restores directly from database backups, eliminating the need to restore the database first

DocAve Backup and Restore Specifications

* Platform Protection capabilities are not available for SPS 2003 or WSS 2.0.

Note: Presently DocAve 6 supports SharePoint 2013 and 2010. DocAve v5 supports WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007, and SharePoint 2010. For current SPS 2003 and WSS 3.0 support, please utilize DocAve 4.5.

View & Compare: DocAve Backup & Restore vs. Native and SQL Backups

DocAve Backup and Restore Resources

Product Brochures:

• DocAve 6 Backup and Restore Product Brochure

Not fully migrated to SharePoint 2013 or 2010 yet?

• DocAve Backup and Restore for SharePoint 2007 and 2010
• DocAve Backup and Restore for SharePoint 2003

Case Studies:

• AgResearch Successfully Performs SharePoint Backup and Recovery with DocAve

  Read about how one of New Zealand's leading research organizations reduced SharePoint item-level recovery from one hour to 5 minutes with DocAve.

• Park Nicollet Protects Vital SharePoint Data and Meets Compliance Objectives with DocAve

  This case study highlights how this organization slashed data restore time from hours to minutes.

• Tata Steel Satisfies SharePoint Backup and Restore SLAs with DocAve

  Learn about how this company can now restore individual documents in as little as one minute.

Read more Customer Success Stories

Solution Briefs:

• SharePoint Governance with DocAve
  Learn how organizations worldwide are using AvePoint's DocAve Software Platform to deploy, monitor, and enforce Microsoft SharePoint 2010 governance policies.
• Optimizing SharePoint Storage
  Leverage DocAve's Storage Optimization solutions to Optimize Microsoft SharePoint 2010 performance and reduce SharePoint total cost of ownership (TCO).
• Infrastructure Management
  This brief discusses the importance of maintaining a well-managed and protected SharePoint deployment in order to provide all global users with optimal SharePoint access, business continuity, and platform stability.

Explore all of our available Solution Briefs

White Papers:

• Best Practices for Microsoft^® SharePoint^® Backup and Restore
  This white paper offers planning practices, guidelines, and implementation considerations for SharePoint data protection and disaster recovery, and provides proven strategies for executing these practices in accordance with your organizational needs.

Peruse our collection of available White Papers

User Guides:

• Read the DocAve 6 Granular Backup and Restore User Guide for SharePoint 2013 and 2010
• Read the DocAve 6 Platform Backup and Restore User Guide for SharePoint 2013 and 2010

Still on a prior release of SharePoint?

• Read the complete DocAve 5 User Guide for SharePoint 2007 and 2010 support

Webcasts:

• Watch a 20-minute demonstration of DocAve 6 Backup and Restore here