Thanks everyone for their replies. The quest software looks very promising and easy to use. Thanks Paul.
Regards, Trent From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: Wednesday, 18 February 2009 9:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Backup/Restore There's no datasheet I've found that compares all of them. Possibly because they're all so new, with more hitting the market all the time. Without question, the most comprehensive solution I've seen to date is DocAve but at those prices it would want to be. Simply too expensive for your small-medium market. I've done WebEx demos on all of them (with the exception of Backup Exec agent which we currently have running). I've never seen DPM in action but it's the only tool MS mention in their DR white paper. Please to hear it rates well. I may have to check it out next. :) But nothing, absolutely nothing, I have seen so far is what I would consider a compete DR solution. Almost every developer I've ever questioned during a demo has been blissfully unaware that a file structure even exists, let alone that it might require backing-up. Then again I could be hoping to much to expect that I can ever just click the big red button and see everything magically restored. The only benefit of any of these tools then is that they allow granular recovery. Some, like Quest, allow you to do this from existing stsadm back-ups, you can even search across multiple backups. This for me is a HUGE plus. Pros and cons everywhere. I'm doing a demo of Quest Recovery Manager for SharePoint next week. As well as a search facility it also claims to restore alerts, permissions, metadata and custom views. You can even search across archived and live recycle bins for individual documents. Very cool. There's a Flash demo here - http://www.quest.com/recovery_manager_for_sharepoint/product-demo/chap00.htm - and more info here - http://wwwquest.com/recovery-manager-for-sharepoint/<http://www.quest.com/recovery-manager-for-sharepoint/>. One other solution I forgot to mention is Idera Point Backup. It can't do full farm backup/recovery but it has this terrific self-service feature that a web-part interface for users (with permission) to restore their own documents from backups. It also allows configuring multiple farms and deploying from one to another through the UI. Still in its infancy but definitely one to watch. I've also attached a DocAve vs Backup Exec datasheet, worthless as it might be. What REALLY pees me off about the Backup Exec agent (if you'll allow me the rant) is that, despite its claims to support MOSS 2007, the documentation only refers to Portal Server 2003! Their forum provides an ever-growing list of seriously peed-off users with more questions than answers. And their tech support is non-existent. Regards, Paul Online Developer, ICT CEO Sydney From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Nemtsev Sent: Wednesday, 18 February 2009 9:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Backup/Restore Paul, have you seen any review comparing different tools for backup/restore?! Any pros and cons of them and which one is better depending on environment? Michael Nemtsev | MOSS MCTS, MS MVP Readify B: http://msmvps.com/blogs/laflour/ T: +61 424 184 978 E: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 9:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Backup/Restore Other solutions are DocAve, Backup Exec with SharePoint agent and R1 for SharePoint. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Nemtsev Sent: Tuesday, 17 February 2009 11:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Backup/Restore We used Data Protection Manager, and really happy with it. The one of the advantages is fine-grained level of restore. You can find and restore deleted sites and documents Michael Nemtsev | MOSS MCTS, MS MVP Readify B: http://msmvps.com/blogs/laflour/ T: +61 424 184 978 E: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Trent Allday Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Backup/Restore Hi All, Just wondering if anybody is aware of backup software that will allow you to backup a whole sharepoint site/web app and allow for restore of sites within that collection. Example: We have a site called "Intranet" (http://intranet.com). Within this web app there is a site called "Collaboration" (http://intranet.com/collaboration). Is it possible to restore from backup only the "Collaboration" site? Hence we don't wont to override all other data within the extranet with old data from backup. We are currently using Backup Exec to backup the sql database. I am aware of the sharepoint add-on for the software but am unsure if it will do whats required. Any experiences, thoughts or suggestions? 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