Backing Up SharePoint

cnfuzzd

Hello Everyone

We are in the midst of doing a sharepoint deployment for a client, and are now considering backup solutions. I know that a regular sql backup will (i think) do the trick for recovery, but there are also solutions such as backup exec/sharepoint agent that will allow for granular restore. Does anyone have experience with this type of scenario?


Thanks!

John

blargoe

I've used both the backup exec and the netbackup agents for things like restoring single documents, it's always worked fine for me.

astorrs

blargoe wrote: »

I've used both the backup exec and the netbackup agents for things like restoring single documents, it's always worked fine for me.

+1 spend the money on an agent (the Symantec ones blargoe mentioned work great) as restoring both IIS and SQL sucks - and recovering an entire DB just to retrieve the file/site the user deleted (and then purged from the recycle bin by accident too) is a royal P.I.T.A.

d4nmf

As above - use industry specific sharepoint backup tools. I have had one experience with using hte sharepoint backup and restore and it just wouldnt work

bertieb

The Backup Exec Sharepoint agent is the best I've used, though I had a really niggly issue that I sent to Symantec to fix and it took a few months to fully resolve - they subsequently released a patch for it, I was using v12.0 at the time.

All working fine now though, on a few different instances/solutions, and I agree with what the others have said that the ability to restore a single document is much better than recovering an entire DB or using stsadmin.

HeroPsycho

+1. BackupExec's agent rocks!