The restore process is very intuitive, and the steps for each type of restore job are similar, regardless of which type of backup job you are restoring from. This section only covers restores from a Platform Level backup, since our solution is focused on VSS backup and restore.
Setting the Date Range
The first step of the restore process is to enter the time window of backups you want to restore data from:
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Navigate to DocAve -> Data Protection -> Restore Controller, and select Platform Restore.•
Select an Agent from the drop-down box.•
Choose a time range in the Time Window fields for “From” and “To”. By default, it is set to one week prior than the current time.•
You can click on the calendar icon to the right of the “From” and “To” field to change the time range. Select a date and time in the calendar pop-up window and click OK.•
Click Load Timeline. It will display yellow points indicating when the backup jobs ran during the specified period.•
Mouse-over the yellow time points and they will show a quick summary of the backup job in a pop-up window.•
Clicking on the time point, you can review the detailed contents of the job in the tree mode area.Finding and Selecting Data for Restore
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In the Restore Controller\Platform Restore interface, click on the time point to display the backup data in tree view.•
Click the Farm Name to expand the data tree.•
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Alternately, you can click Detail after the Content Database listing to view the content of the database under the “Detail” tab.•
Under the “Detail” tab, it lists the content of the database. You can click the corresponding URL to expand the tree. Click the Information icon to view thecontent inside, and check the corresponding box to select the content to restore. The Detail tab provides granularity down to the item level.
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By default, once you check the content, all items in it will also be checked. If you uncheck some items inside, the check-box will become a dash sign.•
For large environments, you may want to limit the results displayed in the tree by clicking the Search icon. For case-sensitive searches, check the “Case Sensitive”box located in the lower-left of the window. You can view the search result under the
“Search Result” tab.
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Advanced Restore Options
Once the backed up data has been located and selected, there are several options available for the restore, as well as some prerequisites and additional configurations needed. Going into detail on these items is beyond the scope of this document, but includes the following:
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In Place and Out of Place restore•
Restore databases to most recent state•
Restore database only•
Safe Restore•
Include security•
Full Farm restoreRefer to the DocAve Administrators Guide for in-depth coverage of these options and configurations.
Performing the Restore
Continuing in the Platform Restore screen, with our data selected. The following steps cover launching a basic restore job:
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In the Restore Settings panel, select In Place restore.•
Select a Restore Option: either Overwrite, Append, or Not Overwrite.Not overwrite: Will not restore the content if it already exists on the target. For example, if an entire folder’s content is selected for restore, but only one document was removed from the destination folder, only the removed document will be restored.
Overwrite: Will restore the content over whatever exists on the destination. This will delete the content on the destination and replace it with the content selected to be restored.
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Select a time for the restore to run. By default, Now is selected and will run the process as soon as Go is clicked. You can set a scheduled date and time for this restore by clicking the calendar icon.•
Optionally, enter a “Description” to help identify the job in the Job Monitor.•
Click Go. If you set the start time as “now”, it will run the restore job immediately.Otherwise, it will run the job at the specified time.
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Below is a view of the completed restore with detailed status report window.Conclusion
The system configurations described in this document are designed to address demanding enterprise requirements for highly-available Microsoft® Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployments. Tivoli Storage Manager for SharePoint is designed to enable granular, reliable backups of SharePoint sites, sub-sites, and items. With the addition of Microsoft VSS support, the entire SharePoint farm can be quickly, easily, and reliably backed up with a negligible impact on production services.
The granular restore capabilities help reduce backup and restore complexity and duration because restores are performed directly on the production server, and only the needed data is restored. These are the type of restores most often requested by users.
The DocAve GUI is highly intuitive, and abstracts the administrators from the complexity of diverse backup & restore functionality of large-scale environments. Coupled with the extremely powerful Tivoli Storage Manager, which offers advanced enterprise-class functionality such as data-deduplication, offloaded (LAN free) backups & restores, tiered storage repositories and archive management, this solution can scale & integrate easily.
IBM® System x™ servers and System Storage™ arrays are designed to provide the processing throughput and scalable storage needed for large SharePoint environments.
IBM® Tivoli Storage Manager for SharePoint is designed to help support true fault and disaster tolerance. The combination of IBM® Tivoli Storage Manager and SharePoint forms a solid backup and recovery platform for mission-critical SharePoint deployments.
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