DocAve Backup and Restore

DocAve Backup and Restore

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DocAve Backup and Restore addresses the need for a fast, flexible, and intelligent backup solution for Microsoft SharePoint.

DocAve provides full fidelity backup and recovery, from an individual content item to an entire SharePoint environment and all of its farm-level components, maintaining all metadata, securities, and version histories.

All Microsoft, All the Way

As with all AvePoint software, DocAve Backup and Restore leverages only fully supported Microsoft methodologies and API’s.

Key Advantages of the DocAve Backup and Restore

True Enterprise-level SharePoint Backup

Protect entire SharePoint environments, including all web applications, databases, WFE elements, and content residing in BLOB stores outside of SQL Server, leveraged by AvePoint's Storage Optimization solutions - DocAve Extender, Connector and Archiver. DocAve's full-fidelity backup includes all metadata, securities, version histories, and customized layouts. Unique granular backup scheduling - via the business-aware Criticality Matrix or the conventional scheduler - enables you to run backup processes according to your specific business needs or organizational timetables.Learn more about the Business Criticality Matrix.

Restore With Minimal Business Interruption and Data Loss

Quickly and easily recover all SharePoint components, databases, indexes, and configurations. Granular, item-level restores from DocAve or SQL Server backups via an intuitive timeline-based Restore Controller enables deft recovery of 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.

Satisfy the Most Stringent SLAs

As SharePoint expands into a business-critical platform, organizations must meet increasingly high service level agreement (SLA) requirements, specifically recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO). 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.

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 deployment of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. 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 Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) or HIPAA. See DocAve Vault for additional compliance options

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DocAve Backup and Restore Technical Overview

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Intelligent, Enterprise-Strength Backup and Recovery

  • Full, incremental, and differential backup capabilities for selective SharePoint farm components enable customers to build backup plans and schedules that focus on frequent backup of high priority data, improving backup operations and storage efficiency
  • Automatic classification of content according to business importance and usage activity via the Business Criticality Matrix—more critical content is automatically associated with more aggressive backup schedules
  • Template Builder for defining reusable, color-coded backup schedules to maintain consistent coverage across your entire SharePoint environment
  • Centralized browser-based interface (integrated with Active Directory) supports and integrates ALL your SharePoint environments
  • User interface delivers "point & click" tree-mode simplicity to backup and recovery
  • Auto-Coalescing of Incremental Backups into Full Backups enables storage optimization
  • Backup to centrally managed tiered storage location with built-in encryption, compression, and pruning policies—integrate with EMC Centera storage to de-duplicate documents, further optimizing storage resources
  • 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 SharePoint 2010, and any custom application databases
  • 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
  • Load balancing across all front-end web servers for efficient resource utilization
  • Password protection for safeguarding backup data
  • Manage email notification rules via email notification manager
  • Monitor real-time progress of any SharePoint backup or recovery processes
  • Centralized setup and configuration, software patch and license management, and user account management
  • SQL Mirroring provides true redundancy with optional High Availability module

Granular Content and Data Protection

  • Supports SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 environments (via DocAve v5), and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (via DocAve 4.5). Support for SharePoint 2001 is available – 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 Definitions, Layout Templates, and Site Definitions, along with access permissions, metadata and version histories)
  • Backs up and restores SharePoint workflow definitions
  • Full fidelity item-level restore from DocAve, SQL native backups created by T-SQL script or a maintenance plan, DPM, IBM-TSM, HP Data Protector, as well as third-party embedded SQL backup engines, including HyperBac and LiteSpeed Engine
  • Granular, item-level restore with sliding timeline view, along with full text keyword search and identification criteria mask search
  • Restore content to different SharePoint instances or locations, including file systems and networked file shares with DocAve'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
  • Data Coalescing feature allows collapsing incremental backups into one backup data set for easy retrieval.
  • Item-level "out-of-place restore" for complete hardware failure
  • Fast granular backup speeds, up to 60GB/hour

Comprehensive Platform Protection

  • Backup and recover entire SharePoint farms or selective components including all servers and back-end SQL databases with all configurations, Index/Job servers, as well as front-end IIS settings, file system resources, and custom application databases
  • Quickly and selectively restore individual or a combination of farm components (content databases, web applications, SSP, etc.)
  • Safeguard front-end web server resources (IIS settings, Template files, user selected resources, local file systems, etc.)
  • Backup InfoPath form templates, Project Server content and Site Definitions
  • Support for SharePoint Features
  • Up-to-the-minute restore using SQL logs restoration
  • Leverages Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to ensure consistent point-in-time backups
  • Fast platform backup speeds, up to 100 GB/hour
  • Efficient data streaming via open standards, including VDI and VSS without staging location requirements

DocAve Backup and Restore allow SharePoint administrators to specify:

What to backup Granular selection via a SharePoint-centric URL tree
When to backup Schedule a backup plan via our unique scheduling carousel; schedule up to seven customizable schedules per plan; scheduling options include one-time only, hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly
Where to backup Backup to dedicated DocAve media servers which write data to designated network/local/cloud/mapped disk drive/logical drive (selection of drives)
How to backup Full, Incremental, or Differential backup options
How to handle backup Options include: Data retention (pruning and coalescing), Security (128-bit encryption) and Compression (5:1 ratio)

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

Note: Presently 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.

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  • Best Practices for Backup and RestorePDF

    This white paper is intended to aid IT administrators responsible for managing Microsoft SharePoint deployments in planning and implementing a comprehensive, reliable, and efficient data protection strategy appropriate to their organizational needs. It outlines the planning, guidelines, and implementation considerations for SharePoint backup and disaster recovery, then briefly reviews the singular attributes of DocAve Backup and Restore.

  • Can Your SharePoint Backup Harm Your Business? PDF

    Learn about Microsoft SharePoint's Native Backup Pros and Cons, Evaluation Standards and Best Practices.

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