Re: WSS Backup Strategy

From: Mike Walsh (englantilainen_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/05/04


Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 20:15:04 +0300

Thanks Todd,

Do you have a URL for CommVault ?

Have you actually asked Veritas if their product only works with Portal ?
Lots of the time companies' sites say Portal but when you ask them they
often say that it works with WSS too.

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland

"Todd Klindt" <usenet@klindt.org> wrote in message
news:ei8wBdveEHA.140@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I've seen a demo of CommVault's document restoration. It works with WSS
> alone. I saw it once at Tech Ed, and then again a couple of weeks ago via
> webcast. I can't remember if it's generally available or not. It looked
> pretty sweet, I can say that.
>
> Veritas Backup Exec 10 offers that functionality too, but it only works
with
> Portal.
>
> tk
>
> "Mike Walsh" <englantilainen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23Vx9ebxdEHA.3476@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Until such time as the major backup/restore companies come up with
> document
> > level (etc.) restore, your separate environment suggestion is the way to
> go.
> > It's not Rube Goldberg like really because that's the way Exchange sites
> > were forced to recover single users mailboxes for years.
> >
> > There is ONE small previously unknown compnay that says it offers the
> > capability to restore single documents from its backup.
> >
> > You'll find that by searching the WSS FAQ site with "backup" as search
> > criteria. (whereupon its the first hit if I remember right)
> >
> > Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
> > WSS FAQ at wss.collutions.com
> > Please reply to the newsgroup
> >
> > "Jeff" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:uYqvCfwdEHA.724@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > > WSS is really beginning to catch on in our environment...we have about
> 200
> > > sites with several gigs of data, and we haven't really come up with a
> good
> > > strategy for being able to recover individual sites, or documents
within
> > > sites. This is going to come back and bite us soon, I'm sure.
> > >
> > > We have a single Sharepoint server and the database resides in our
> > > production SQL 2000 farm. We are certainly able to recover the SQL
data
> > in
> > > the event of a disaster, but we need a pratical method of recovering
> > > specific libraries, documents, lists, etc. I don't want the scenario
of
> > > having to restore all sites to a previous point in time simply to
> recover
> > a
> > > deleted Word document from a single site.
> > >
> > > I suppose we could always have a separate environment for recovery.
In
> > > other words, restore the SQL database to a separate server and create
a
> > > second 'recovery' Sharepoint web server and point it to the restored
> > > database. Then we could extract the specific items that need to be
> > > recovered and move them to the production area. I haven't tested
this,
> > and
> > > it sounds a little 'Rube Goldberg' like.
> > >
> > > Is there a good method of recovering content, without doing a total
> > disaster
> > > recovery of the environment, and still maintain the security, document
> > > histories, etc.? Any help would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > > Jeff
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>



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