Archive for the ‘SharePoint recovery’ Category

The SharePoint offering from Microsoft encompasses two products—Windows® SharePoint Services™ (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS).

Organizations deploy SharePoint to make information more accessible to end users and to enhance collaboration among work groups.

Recent Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research on over 1,000 worldwide organizations indicates nearly one out of two respondent companies has deployed or is planning to deploy MOSS.

In choosing an archiving solution for SharePoint, it is important to ask these questions:

There, I said it.  Its a mouth full and the first few times you might stumble over it, but this is a very important thing that many SharePoint admins forget about. 

The problem case is that SharePoint data is different than other data, it isn’t stale, it aren’t just fixed blobs.  Many vendors take the shortcut and treat it that way as that has been working for them with other applications.

When talking about SharePoint recovery you need to understand that there are multiple levels of recovery. For example, bulk or coarse-grained recovery, that is quite different from item, or fine-grained recovery.

Bulk SharePoint recovery is quite common and is provided by the leading backup products, including Microsoft’s DPM and NTBackup. But, item level SharePoint restore is another matter to consider.