Symantec NetBackup : Microsoft SharePoint Data Protection

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1 SOLUTION BRIEF: SYMANTEC NETBACKUP : MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT DATA..... PROTECTION Symantec NetBackup : Microsoft SharePoint Data Protection Who should read this paper This document is intended for backup administrators and other IT professionals responsible for the backup and recovery of SharePoint farms. It is an overview of solutions NetBackup can provide to resolve your challenges with respect to SharePoint data protection.

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3 Content The challenge The solution Solution benefits Key features Summary

4 The challenge Organizations of all sizes across the globe are deploying Microsoft SharePoint to share data among their knowledge workers, business processes, and global enterprise-wide contents. As a result, hundreds of thousands of users are leveraging SharePoint as a centralized data repository and creating enormous amounts of data. When SharePoint was a relatively new application, the amount of data it housed was small and manageable. Backup administrators could use traditional tools to protect and recover it. However, SharePoint farms are now growing and it's fairly common to find an average SharePoint farm hosting multiple terabytes of data. In addition, SharePoint farms are getting more complex, containing multiple front-end servers, database, sites, and configurations. SharePoint's native backup tools are inadequate for handling the complexity of SharePoint data growth. In a disaster recovery situation, how can you ensure not just full data recovery, but also the configuration and relevant permissions to various documents within a SharePoint farm? And the problem gets worse if you have to recover an individual document from a specific version. The solution As the leader in data protection, Symantec offers comprehensive data protection for SharePoint farms of all sizes. Symantec NetBackup SharePoint agent provides a highly scalable and complete system that allows you to protect your entire SharePoint farm. Whether it is a physical or virtual environment, NetBackup allows you to protect your SharePoint farm with confidence. NetBackup also empowers you to simplify data protection and recovery at the database level or at the granular item level by requiring just a single pass backup, while significantly reducing storage cost and improving overall backup and recovery times. Additionaly, centralized and automated backup management improves service levels. Having centralized, automated backup and recovery across enterprise SharePoint Server farms ensures continued availability of services and data, spanning physical and virtual servers. Figure 1: NetBackup provides unmatched physical and/or virtual protection for SharePoint farms on your choice of storage while transforming the operating model. 1

5 Solution benefits Centralized administration Single console to protect multiple SharePoint farms. Automated backup Schedule automatic, unattended backups of local or remote client systems. Granular recovery Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) level recovery for individual objects from a single backup. Flexible restores Restore redirection at Web App and individual object level to a farm or into another farm. Maintain user access during the backup SharePoint Server objects are backed up without taking the SharePoint offline. Storage optimization Global deduplication and compression significantly reduces the media storage requirements. Zero dependency on point solutions Eliminating the need to buy point solutions (which adds complexity) solely for backing up SharePoint farms. Key features Flexible SharePoint backup: NetBackup supports full and differential/incremental backups of SharePoint farms. Tight NetBackup integration: An administrator already familiar with NetBackup procedures and software can easily configure and use NetBackup to perform SharePoint Server backup and restore operations. Automated backups: Administrators can set up schedules for automatic, unattended backups for local or remote clients across the network. These backups are managed entirely by the NetBackup server from a central location. The administrator can also manually back up the clients. Auto-discovery of the SharePoint farm: SharePoint farms and its components are automatically discovered. Flexible and simple user-directed backups: A user can perform backups of SharePoint Server resources through the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface on the front-end Web server without depending on the backup administrator. SharePoint agent integration with VMware backups: VMware backups that protect SharePoint Servers provide granular recovery, complete protection of the farm, and protection of the SharePoint components in the Windows files system. Backup compression: Compression increases backup performance over the network and reduces the size of the backup image that is stored on the disk or tape. Encryption: When the Encryption attribute is enabled, the server encrypts the backup for the clients that are listed in the policy. Restore operations: An administrator who uses the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface can browse SharePoint Server backups and select the images to restore. Restores of individual items and document sets using GRT: GRT allows users to restore individual items and documents sets directly from any full database backup of a Web application. Redirected restore: You can redirect the restore of the following: SharePoint Web application within a farm. SharePoint Web application to another farm. Individual SharePoint documents and pictures to a file path on the same site. 2

6 Summary Organizations of all sizes are shifting towards leveraging SharePoint as a centralized data repository and creating vast amounts of data. This presents a challenge because SharePoint's native backup tools are inadequate for handling these rapidly growing and increasingly complex SharePoint farms. As the leader in data protection, NetBackup offers comprehensive data protection for SharePoint farms of all sizes. NetBackup empowers you to easily protect databases, lists, and documents with a single pass backup while significantly reducing storage costs and improving overall backup and recovery times. 3

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8 About Symantec Symantec protects the world s information and is the global leader in security, backup, and availability solutions. Our innovative products and services protect people and information in any environment from the smallest mobile device to the enterprise data center to cloud-based systems. Our industry-leading expertise in protecting data, identities, and interactions gives our customers confidence in a connected world. More information is available at or by connecting with Symantec at go.symantec.com/socialmedia. For specific country offices and contact numbers, please visit our website. Symantec World Headquarters 350 Ellis St. Mountain View, CA USA +1 (650) (800) Copyright 2012 Symantec Corporation. All rights reserved. Symantec, the Symantec Logo, and the Checkmark Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. 11/