Granular SharePoint Recovery from Existing Backups Enterprise backup and restore for SharePoint is cumbersome for administrators. They must use multiple backup techniques due to limited software and hardware tools that require large amounts of storage space?and lack options for recovering the data leveling large, distributed environments. Finding a solution that fits an organization’s SharePoint backup requirements is essential for cost-efficiency and productivity.Quest Recovery Manager for SharePoint is an enterprise-level solution that provides granular recovery of data for SharePoint 2003 and 2007. It restores items from full database backups created for disaster recovery,whether they be SQL Server or SharePoint native backups.
Simplify Backup and Recovery – as well as Administration Recovery Manager allows you to centrally manage backed-up SharePoint data with ease. Content database backups on the SharePoint servers are automatically discovered using the integrated Quest Management Console for SharePoint. The Microsoft Management Console (MMC) -based user interface makes recovery easy – from single-item recovery to the restoration of site collections or entire sites. In addition, search and recovery functions are available as PowerShell cmdlets. This integrates Recovery Manager into the existing infrastructure?and processes for greater flexibility and customization.Recovery Manager can locate and use backup files created natively in SharePoint, through built-in SQL?maintenance, or via Quest LiteSpeed for SQL Server, Microsoft DPM or IBM TSM. It uses SQL system tables to discover backups, regardless of which product made them, thereby providing a highly flexible content recovery solution.
Increase Recovery Options – and Reliability Recovery Manager provides granularity for the restore operation; anything in the backup of the database content —individual documents, lists, document libraries, sites, workspaces—can be restored separately.Because Recovery Manager works with backups of SQL databases, all information stored in the databases,including alerts, permissions, metadata and custom views, can be restored. Organizations become more efficient with flexible restore options resulting in decreased downtime for end users.
To protect you when a disaster recovery becomes necessary, Recovery Manager for SharePoint includes a Disaster Recovery Advisor, a component which guides the SharePoint administrator through the process of complete farm restoration. The DR Advisor analyzes the existing backups of the SharePoint configuration database, creates a detailed checklist of actions required to return the SharePoint farm back to operational state and verifies each components’ availability in real time. This allows you to quickly determine what has already been done and what needs to be done to get your SharePoint farm back up and running.
Retrieve Data Anytime – and Restore Anywhere With Recovery Manager, any recovered content can be restored to any SharePoint instance or saved to a file system. Recovery Manager allows you to quickly browse backup content and retrieve only the documents?you need, even when the original SharePoint site is no longer available. This means you can get businesscritical data back online before the entire server farm is back up and running.
Reduce Recovery Time – and Administration Workload Recovery Manager’s Search Center allows you to look for the data you need across all SharePoint backups previously analyzed in Recovery Manager. For more precise results, you can limit the search scope to backups?made during a certain time period or to backups of a particular application. For any given backup, Recovery Manager also allows you to filter out documents or items that were deleted or modified since the last backup. Once you locate the data, you can open files directly from the backup, save it to a file system, or restore it to the original SharePoint site, or to a different one.In addition, the “Search in Recycle Bin” option allows you to search for specific items simultaneously across multiple backups and inside live SharePoint Recycle Bins. This functionality allows you to use Recovery Manager as your single entry point into a SharePoint recovery and restore the most recent version of any particular item, whether it is located in the backup or the Recycle Bin. Recovery Manager will find specific items even when a user moves a parent container to the Recycle Bin.
Add LiteSpeed for SQL Server – and Add Significant Performance Adding the functionality of LiteSpeed for SQL Server provides Recovery Manager with a significant increase in performance, backup availability and reliability of backup and recovery operations. When saved as aSQL or TSM backup, the recovery backup is accelerated, compressed and encrypted. Whether recovering an individual file or an entire database, Quest’s tools minimize the time required for recovery and deliver consistent results.
LiteSpeed is not required to run Recovery Manager for SharePoint. Integrated Solution – and Centralized SharePoint Management By extending the functionality of Quest Site Administrator for SharePoint and Quest LiteSpeed for SQL Server,you can benefit from the flexible backup options and quick recovery time for SharePoint content databases. Site Administrator provides ongoing, in-depth reporting and global policy settings for an enterprise-wide SharePoint environment. SharePoint quickly becomes a viable, secure collaboration platform for your organization – scalable for your needs in the future.
Integrated Solution – and Centralized SharePoint Management By extending the functionality of Quest Site Administrator for SharePoint and Quest LiteSpeed for SQL Server,you can benefit from the flexible backup options and quick recovery time for SharePoint content databases. Site Administrator provides ongoing, in-depth reporting and global policy settings for an enterprise-wide SharePoint environment. SharePoint quickly becomes a viable, secure collaboration platform for your organization – scalable for your needs in the future.
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