Appendix B: Third-Party Tools

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1 Appedix B: Third-Party Tools I This Chapter Cosideratios The Tools Cosideratios Obviously, beig able to desig, prepare, ad implemet effective disaster recovery strategies for your SharePoit eviromet is a importat piece of the overall admiistrative puzzle for the platform. Microsoft recogizes this requiremet ad provides optios ad solutios for orgaizatios of all sizes out of the box, or through other tools commoly used i cojuctio with SharePoit. This book has extesively described what these tools are ad how you ca use them effectively i your SharePoit eviromet, but at the same time it has t shied away from eumeratig the tools weakesses ad shortcomigs. As you begi to desig your system s disaster recovery pla, you may fid yourself uable to overcome these shortcomigs ad less tha satisfied with the idea of usig the out-of-the-box tools. The good ews is that Microsoft has also opeed up the SharePoit platform ad made it possible for developers to build their ow tools ad applicatios that ru o or work with Share- Poit. Because of that opeess, there s a strog, rich third-party ecosystem of applicatios, Web parts, admiistrative tools, ad other add-os for SharePoit that has bee available sice the first days after SharePoit became geerally available. Amog that wide rage of third-party applicatios are several aimed squarely at helpig with or solvig the challeges iheret i backig up ad restorig your SharePoit eviromet. This appedix itroduces you to some of the third-party backup ad restore tools available for SharePoit 2010 at the time this book was published. With the time available, it would be impossible to fully review ad evaluate each of these optios, which is why this appedix is iteded to give you just a brief overview of the tools ad some of their attributes. May of the maufacturers offer trial or demo editios of these tools that you ca use to test ad get to kow them, a activity that s highly recommed before you decide to make ay tool or solutio 29

2 30 SharePoit 2010 Disaster Recovery Guide a part of your disaster recovery plaig. Fully review the requiremets, liceses, ad optios for all of these tools, because these attributes ca have a cosiderable impact o the tools effectiveess withi the specific coditios preset i your SharePoit eviromet. The Tools The third-party tools that follow are i alphabetical order by maufacturer. Their order of display does ot idicate preferece or rakig. This list covers tools that are stated by their maufacturer to be compatible with SharePoit 2010, but those claims have ot bee verified. A maximum of four features were highlighted for each tool, but may offer further fuctioality beyod what is listed here. The tools listed are curretly available for purchase ad supported for use i a productio eviromet. Noe of these items are i developmet or a Beta release. AvePoit DocAve 5.5 Recovery Maager for SharePoit Maufacturer. AvePoit, a producer of ifrastructure maagemet software solutios for Microsoft SharePoit. AvePoit specializes i comprehesive data protectio, disaster recovery, replicatio, migratio, admiistratio, archivig, ad compliace solutios for all Microsoft SharePoit products ad techologies. URL. Supported SharePoit versios. SharePoit Foudatio 2010, SharePoit Server 2010, Widows SharePoit Services versio 3 (WSS), ad Microsoft Office SharePoit Server 2007 (MOSS). You ca use previous versios of the DocAve Backup software to back up ad restore previous versios of SharePoit. Highlighted features. AvePoit s DocAve product suite cotais several tools of iterest. Recovery Maager is a free item-level restore tool. Backup ad Recovery protects full SharePoit 2010 farms dow to the item level ad ca work with a rage of backup formats (DocAve, SQL Server, Microsoft s Data Protectio Maager [DPM], ad other third parties). High Availability allows for the creatio of a warm stadby farm with istat failover that is ucostraied by hardware or proximity requiremets. SiteBi automatically backs up deleted site collectios ad sites (also kow as webs i the SharePoit object model). Price/licesig. DocAve Recovery Maager for SharePoit is available for dowload free of charge from AvePoit s Web site. You ca purchase AvePoit s DocAve suite i its etirety or idividually buy a specific compoet such as Backup ad Recovery, High Availability, or SiteBi for SharePoit. Pricig data is ot directly available from AvePoit, but there is a retur o ivestmet (ROI) calculator o the Web site ( sharepoit-data-protectio-roic/) to assist with budget plaig. Cotact a AvePoit sales represetative for detailed pricig iformatio. Notes. DocAve requires the istallatio of a software aget o each server i your farm to fully back up ad restore it.

3 Appedix B: Third-Party Tools 31 Black Blade SharePoit Zip 2.0 Maufacturer. Black Blade, a iformatio techology (IT) software compay with offices located i Norther Virgiia ad Bosto, Massachusetts. URL. Supported SharePoit versios. SharePoit Foudatio 2010, SharePoit Server 2010, WSS versio 3 ad MOSS Highlighted features. Allows users to select a file, folder, or etire documet library withi a SharePoit site ad the creates a compressed folder, ofte referred to as a zipped folder, with a.zip extesio based o the cotets of the target item(s) for dowload to a local workstatio. Compressed folders ca be uploaded ad expaded withi a SharePoit site i a similar fashio. It provides a ed user backup optio for the cotets of collaborative SharePoit sites. Price/licesig. Zip 2.0 is curretly listed at $1, (U.S.), icludes techical support by Black Blade, ad offers fuctioality such as compatibility with forms-based autheticatio (FBA) ad load-balaced SharePoit Web frot-eds (WFEs). Discouted pricig is also available for govermet agecies, oprofits, academic istitutios, ad reseller parters. Cotact Black Blade s sales departmet for the latest discouts ad promotios. CA Techologies ARCserve Suite Maufacturer. Computer Associates (CA Techologies) is a IT maagemet software ad solutios compay with expertise across all IT eviromets from maiframe ad physical to virtual ad cloud. URL. Supported SharePoit versios. ARCserve lists the suite as havig agets compatible with SharePoit Highlighted features. ARCserve Backup provides graular protectio of SharePoit cotet dow to the item level ad uses ARCserve D2D data deduplicatio to reduce storage usage by up to 80 percet. ARCserve Replicatio provides local area etwork (LAN) ad wide area etwork (WAN)-optimized replicatio for geographic distributio. ARCserve High Availability icludes all the features of ARCserve Replicatio ad adds full coverage of the Widows operatig system (OS) as well as both physical ad virtual servers, ad automated failover ad moitorig. Price/licesig. See CA ARCserve s Web site for detailed sales iformatio; the available packages listed there are too umerous to summarize easily here.

4 32 SharePoit 2010 Disaster Recovery Guide Idera SharePoit Backup v2.8 Maufacturer. Idera builds products for maagig, admiistratig, ad securig Microsoft Widows Server operatig systems ad the platforms that ru o them. Headquartered i Housto, Texas, Idera s products are sold ad supported directly ad via authorized resellers ad distributors aroud the globe. URL. Supported SharePoit versios. SharePoit Foudatio 2010, SharePoit Server 2010, WSS versio 3, ad MOSS Highlighted features. Features a custom search egie for searchig withi backup files. It also offers self-service recovery for site ad site collectio admiistrators beyod the costraits of the built-i recycle bis. Backups ca be flexibly scheduled to meet specific requiremets. Data compressio ad targeted backups for storage optimizatio are offered as well. Price/licesig. Idera s Web site provides a dowload lik for a trial versio. The startig price for the product is $3,990 (U.S.). See the Web site for iformatio o how to cotact Idera s sales departmet. Gary Lapoite s Custom PowerShell Cmdlets for SharePoit 2010 Maufacturer. Gary Lapoite is the ower of Falchio Cosultig ad a SharePoit MVP. He has writte several custom cmdlets for PowerShell ad made them freely available via his Web site. URL. (You ca dowload the cmdlets at Supported SharePoit versios. SharePoit Foudatio 2010 ad SharePoit Server Highlighted features. The ew backup ad restore PowerShell cmdlets itroduced for SharePoit 2010 delivered much of the same fuctioality that Gary s older cmdlets ad STSADM extesios delivered, but oe cmdlet is worthy of iterest: Backup-SPSite2. This cmdlet exteds the base fuctioality of SharePoit 2010 s Backup-SPSite cmdlet by addig the automatic backup of the Iteret Iformatio Services (IIS) settigs associated with the targeted site collectio for additioal coverage. Price/licesig. Offered as-is for free, but without support. Microsoft System Ceter Data Protectio Maager 2010 for SharePoit Maufacturer. Microsoft, the maufacturer of SharePoit, SQL Server, Exchage, Office, ad a rage of other products. Although techically ot a third-party product, Data Protectio Maager 2010 (DPM) requires the purchase of a additioal set of liceses beyod the ormal SharePoit liceses to be used.

5 Appedix B: Third-Party Tools 33 URL. Supported SharePoit versios. SharePoit Foudatio 2010, SharePoit Server 2010, WSS versio 3, ad MOSS Highlighted features. Allows the restore of a SharePoit farm s cofiguratio database ad its cotet databases to a specific poit i time from backup. It backs up cotet to the item level withi SharePoit, which ca be restored without a recovery farm. DPM is compatible with both disk- ad tape-based storage media. SharePoit files ca be restored to a etwork folder, rather tha a SharePoit-based locatio. As ew cotet databases are added to a SharePoit farm, DPM ca automatically detect ad protect those databases. Price/licesig. DPM s SharePoit Maagemet Licese (ML) is curretly listed by Microsoft at $432 per server protected by the product. Ulike previous versios of the product, a separate purchase is ot required for the server hostig DPM s maagemet software (uless it is also protected with DPM). Liceses oly eed to be purchased for each server beig protected with DPM. Notes. DPM requires the istallatio of a software aget o each server i your farm to fully back up ad restore it. NetApp SapMaager ad SapMirror for Microsoft SharePoit Server Maufacturer. NetApp creates iovative storage ad data maagemet solutios to assist customers with their busiess ad lower costs. It provides tools to esure the availability of critical busiess data ad simplify busiess processes so compaies ca deploy solutios with cofidece ad improve reveue. URL. Supported SharePoit versios. SharePoit Foudatio 2010, SharePoit Server 2010, WSS versio 3, ad MOSS Highlighted features. SapMaager reduces backup ad recovery times from hours to days to miutes. It automatically discovers the cofiguratio ad architecture of your SharePoit eviromet to assist with data maagemet throughout it. I additio, it provides automatio capabilities for SharePoit data maagemet. Use it to recover a etire SharePoit farm, site, or subsite, or choose to restore a sigle documet or a documet versio. SapMaager ca also store files outside of SQL Server to improve the scalability of large eviromets. SapMirror allows for remote replicatio of SharePoit data so it ca be quickly recovered i the evet of a disaster. Price/licesig. NetApp s Web site provides cotact iformatio for its sales departmet. No further iformatio o the pricig or licesig of its product is available.

6 34 SharePoit 2010 Disaster Recovery Guide Neverfail for Microsoft SharePoit Maufacturer. The Neverfail Group is dedicated to affordable ad accessible solutios for high availability, disaster recovery, ad data protectio. Neverfail products failover i secods, with the visio of zero busiess dowtime to esure your busiess remais productive, secure, ad available. URL. Supported SharePoit versios. SharePoit Foudatio 2010, SharePoit Server 2010, WSS versios 2 ad 3, SharePoit Portal Server (SPS) 2003, ad MOSS Highlighted features. Provides complete, applicatio-aware protectio agaist dowtime for SharePoit Servers, services, ad users. It offers freedom of choice to deploy SharePoit i local high availability (HA), stretched farm, or remote site disaster recovery cofiguratios. Neverfail has easy ad affordable user trasparet WAN Failover for SharePoit farms, eve over log distaces. Mixed physical ad virtual deploymets are supported. Price/licesig. Neverfail s Web site provides cotact iformatio for its sales departmet. No further iformatio o the pricig or licesig of its product is available. Quest Recovery Maager for SharePoit Maufacturer. Quest Software delivers, maages, ad cotrols complex applicatio eviromets from ed user to database. It delivers comprehesive migratio ad maagemet capabilities to simplify, automate, secure, ad exted your Widows ifrastructure, as well as offer database ad virtualizatio maagemet tools. URL. Supported SharePoit versios. SharePoit Foudatio 2010, SharePoit Server 2010, WSS versios 2 ad 3, SPS 2003, ad MOSS Highlighted features. Leverages backups created by other tools, such as SharePoit s built-i backup tools, Microsoft DPM, SQL Server backups, Symatec BackupExec backups, ad may more. It restores backups to ay specified time ad locatio ad shows all available backups for a give cotet database. I additio, it allows for searchig withi a backup or rage of backups for documets by title or type ad previewig of the selected cotet before it is restored. Price/licesig. Quest s Web site provides cotact iformatio for its sales departmet. No further iformatio o the pricig or licesig of its product is available.

7 Appedix B: Third-Party Tools 35 Sytergy Replicator 4.0 for SharePoit Maufacturer. Sytergy is a leadig provider of products, solutios, ad services for Collaborative Kowledge Maagemet (CKM) systems specializig i Microsoft ad Ope Text techologies. Its missio is to rapidly provide cost-effective products, services, ad solutios that scale from the departmet to the eterprise. URL. Supported SharePoit versios. The Web site states that Sytergy Replicator is its flagship eterprise data replicatio software for Microsoft SharePoit 2007 ad Highlighted features. Replicates cotet ad security settigs from oe SharePoit site to aother. Replicated data icludes check-i/check-out state ad metadata such as cotet types ad site colums. Replicatio procedures are evet drive ad ivolve o crawlig to miimize server load. This is ot explicitly a backup ad restore product, but you ca use it to create backup copies of SharePoit cotet. Price/licesig. Stadard editio is curretly listed at $17,500 (U.S.) for the first WFE i the farm ad $8,000 (U.S.) for each additioal WFE. Eterprise editio is curretly listed at $35,000 (U.S.) for the first WFE i the farm ad $13,500 for each additioal WFE. Sytergy s Web site does ot list iformatio about the differeces betwee the Stadard ad Eterprise editios. It does state, however, that a Basic editio is available but provides limited capabilities. Support pricig varies based o locatio; North America support is curretly listed at 20 percet of the list price of the product. Sytergy s Web site also provides cotact iformatio for its sales departmet for further iformatio.

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