AppAssure Advanced Training Webinars Granular Recoveries File/Exchange/SQL/SharePoint Presenter Name Title
Agenda Supported Granular recoveries Prerequisites Steps to Recover Files Windows share of User Recovery Steps to Recover from Exchange Database Mail Restore Utility Steps to Recover from SQL/SharePoint SharePoint Document Retriever Q & A Resources Additional Information 2
Introduction
Introduction Exchange / SQL and Sharepoint are three of the most business-critical elements within your IT infrastructure. They are focal points for your company s communications and data for your employees, partners and clients. Losing email or data can be a disaster, so getting it back in a hurry all of it is crucial AppAssure answers the need with advanced four-way protection No-impact backups - Dell AppAssure 5 hot backups don t require you to take a server offline, nor do they slow it down. Near-zero recovery point objective (RPO) - With backups every five minutes, AppAssure delivers outstanding recovery point granularity for up to 288 recovery points over 24 hours. Near-zero recovery time objective (RTO) - AppAssure s Live Recovery feature allows users to begin using Exchange in 15 minutes or less after a failure regardless of how much data is involved. For even faster recoveries, AppAssure s powerful replication function allows you to simply turn on a preconfigured, up-todate spare VM machine if your Exchange Server goes down. Certain recovery - AppAssure ensures reliable and transactionally consistent backups of Exchange 2003/2007 SP1 Rollup 5 through to Exchange 2010. If AppAssure says a backup is good, you can be certain it s recoverable. 4
Only Dell AppAssure Backup, Replication & Recovery Features Continuous Backup with: Block level snapshots with incremental forever data capture Integrated deduplication can reduce backup storage foot print by up to 80% or more Application-aware modules check data consistency to ensure successful recoveries every time 5
File / Folder Recovery
How to Mount a Recovery Point Select Protected Machine Select Recovery point and expand Select Mount Mount Recovery Point Wizard Choose Mount Location Tip: Change to c:\mpmmddyyyy Select Volumes within RP to load Chose Mount Type Read Read only permissions, no changes can be made Read with previous writes- If you mount a database in write mode and make changes such as in database testing and the like, you can re mount that same database later and view the previous changes in a read only mode Write- Clears any previous changes and makes the Recovery point available for manipulation again Create windows share Provides end-user ability to recover 7
File/Folder Recoveries Open Windows Explorer Navigate to folder with mounted recovery point (ie. C:\MP06192013) Select Files(s) Navigate to folder with file(s) Copy/paste 8
Exchange
Exchange Support and Considerations AppAssure 5.3.x supports the following versions of the Exchange databases (all types: CCR, DAG, SCC): Exchange 2007 Exchange 2010 Exchange 2013 Mountability checks, checksum checks, and log truncation supported Message level recovery functionality will be added in a future release Uses the Microsoft VSS writer(s) Outlook Required on Core Server Outlook must be run one time to setup the local profile prior to any restores Mail Retriever Tool installed with Core Installation Default location (C:\Program Files\AppRecovery\Core\ CoreService\MR) AppAssure v5.3 (Build 63056 and above) - all mountability, attachibility, and checksum checks are disabled by default for new installations
How to Mount a Recovery Point Select protected exchange server Select recovery point and expand Select mount Mount recovery point wizard Choose mount location Tip: Change to c:\mpmmddyyyy Select volumes within RP to load Chose mount type Read-only Read only with Previous Writes Mount Writable Create windows share Provides end-user ability to recover 11
How to Access the Mail Restore Tool Create Desktop Shortcut Open Windows Explorer and navigate to: C:\Program Files\AppRecovery\Core\ CoreService\MR Select DSM_UI.exe and create shortcut 12
How to Launch Mail Restore Tool and Recover Open Mail Restore Tool Select Open Database Browse to the location of the mount point (C:\MP06102013) and click open Log File Path will auto fill Database System Path will auto fill Select Open 13
Different ways to recover Exchange Data Mail Restore Tool Displays Users data files Expand to Drill down Results Shown on Left, Preview, Including attachments in Right panes Review email Open/save attachments Select one/many messages to recover 14
How to use the Restore Wizard Select where to restore Redirect to recovery folder Redirect to a PST file Restore to original location Profile Mailbox Restore Type Restore only differences Create duplicate entries Overwrite if more recent 15
How to use Search / Advanced Search Features Search Search one or many conditions And / Or From/To CC:/BCC: Subject/Body Attachment Advanced Search Query Search Customized search criteria 16
Mail Restore Clean Up Close Database from Mail Restore Tool Dismount all Mounts when complete Protected Machine > Tools > Mounts > Dismount All Mounts are stored in main memory 17
Q & A
SQL
SQL Prerequisites Install a licensed copy of Microsoft SQL on the Core If there are multiple versions of SQL installed on different protected machines install the most recent version 20
How to Download and Install Local Mount Utility The Local Mount Utility provides the ability to mount an AppAssure recovery point to any system on the local network Download the Local Mount Utility, from the Core Core > Tools > Downloads Once Downloaded double click LocalMountUtility- Xxx 5.3.1.60676 LMU Wizard is displayed
Attachability/Log Truncation SQL Attachability checks are part of the nightly jobs By default run at 12:00 AM Accessed from CORE > Configuration > Settings > Nightly Jobs Not every SQL Recovery point is mounted for attachability check Mounted Recovery Points have a Green Status light Last recovery point of the day will be run for attachability check You can force a mount check ONLY simple mode databases have log truncation AppAssure will not truncate Full Mode database logs Data in the logs not yet written to disk 22
How to load a Mount Point from Local Mount Utility Open the Local Mount utility Tool Expand the Core to locate the protected machine Select Recovery Point to Mount and RIGHT click on Status indicator If status isn t green no attachability check was run, however it is still a good backup Select Mount Writeable 23
SQL Mount Complete Once SQL Mount Complete windows explorer will open and display the mount location along with the volumes mounted E:\ Databases F:\ Log files G:\ Files 24
SQL Mount DB and Logs and Attach Open SQL Attach Database Navigate to C:\Mounts folder Select DB to Attach Click on Attach As and rename Mount dbname_copy Click on Logs and navigate to C:\mounts and locate log folder Select OK 25
SQL Recovery Mounted and Attached Expand Databases Mounted Recovery point (dbname_copy) in the list Continue to use DB tools to recover from the Mounted Recovery 26
SQL Cleanup From SQL Right Click on attached database_copy Click Tasks / Detach From Local Mount Utility Select Active mounts Select Dismount All Confirm Dismount 27
SharePoint
DocRetriever for SharePoint DocRetriever is a SharePoint recovery and migration tool offering administrators the ability to restore SharePoint object at the item-level eliminating the need to rely on SQL Server or other backups to restore SharePoint content Download latest release from www.appassure.com Product on download site is a trial version To purchase a license copy please work with your AppAssure Sales Team for a customer key Complete Initial Configuration DocRetriever for Sharepoint Install Guide http://www.appassure.com/serverbackup-replication-andrecovery/docretriever-install-guide/ Ensure Systems Hardware/Operating System/Software requirements are completed 29
Share Point Support and Considerations Ensure you have a License for DocRetriever You must be backing up the SQL server that houses the Share Point databases, and you must have a docretriever agent running on the sharepoint front end server The following versions of SQL Server are currently supported by AppAssure: Microsoft SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, or SQL Server 2008 R2, Microsoft SQL Server Express with Advanced Services 2005, 2008, or 2008 R2. The following versions of SharePoint Server are currently supported by AppAssure: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, 2010 Microsoft Office SharePoint Foundation 2010
Sharepoint 31
Mount Recovery Point from Core Navigate from the Core Select Sharepoint protected Machine Select and Mount Recovery Point
DocRetriever for Sharepoint Select File > Open > Recovery Source Chose Configuration database path Click the + sign button to add the logs file path Click OK 33
DocRetriever for SharePoint Restore 34
Sharepoint Restore Wizard Complete Agent Log in fields Restore Direction Port Number Front-End Server Complete Destination fields 35
Sharepoint Restore Wizard Review Restore Parameters Duplicate actions Container Actions Object Types Restore Destination Restore Objects 36
37
Q & A
Resources
Resources - Exchange Local Mount Utility : Exploring a Mounted Recovery Point - AppAssure Dell AppAssure Local Mount Utility Mounting a Recovery Point Using the Local Mount Utility - AppAssure AppAssure 5 Local Mount Utility Exchange Server: Granular Recovery AppAssure Video Powerful Microsoft Application Protection - AppAssure
Resources - SQL Dell AppAssure Backup, Replication & Recovery Product Demo SQL Server: Granular Recovery - AppAssure Backup for SQL Server Data Protection - AppAssure SQL Server Backup - AppAssure AppAssure SQL Log Truncation Support Managing SQL Attachability - AppAssure Configuring SQL Attachability Settings - AppAssure Configuring Nightly SQL Attachability Checks and Log Truncation 41
Resources - Sharepoint Recovering SharePoint Objects with DocRetriever Doc Retriever for SharePoint for AppAssure 5 User Guide Doc Retriever Install Guide - AppAssure 42
Additional Information
Force Check Sum and Mountability Check Exchange mountability checks are performed every time a backup it taken To Force a Check Sum and / or Mount check Navigate to the recovery point and click on the Check button Select Force Check Sum Select Force Mount Check 44
AppAssure 5 Integrity Check Process Block-by-block hash key verification for backups and replication; Microsoft Exchange mountability checks, log truncation, and checksum checks; and Microsoft SQL Server attachability checks. http://www.appassure.com/support/kb/appassure-5-integrity-checkprocess-2/ 45