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Re: [Networker] Legato backup of Sharepoint 2007 ?

2008-09-18 07:11:08
Subject: Re: [Networker] Legato backup of Sharepoint 2007 ?
From: Rachel Polanskis <r.polanskis AT uws.edu DOT au>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:08:00 +1000
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Rachel Polanskis wrote:

Sharepoint 2007 gurus, I need your help!   (please)



Hi,
I have been tasked with setting up a backup of a Sharepoint 2007
distributed system. I am a UNIX admin and don't know a great deal about Sharepoint, which is kind of an overengineered attempt at domination of a non-market, but any way it's my job and I do find the process of setting it up within Legato to at least be interesting.

I read through the guides for the NMM module we obtained for the job,
but the furthest I got was enabling a snapshot group and sort of having half baked success with it.

Can anyone please advise to me, how to actually make this work in the real world?

One onerous thing I have read but do not understand is that the NMM module on the Client system has a pre-requisite for uninstalling an existing Legato Client and replacing it with the NMM. But then I do not see how to backup the C: drive and so on for example, along with the Sharepoint path documented in the guide. Also, the Sharepoint MS-SQL database resides on a system with several other databases
and so given the above, I have no idea how to back those up as well.
This is a distributed setup, so I have to install the NMM on several systems, I guess.

And then there is whole Snapshot thing, that I have only come across
since we upgraded to 7.4.2 - Can someone point me to how to get this to be successful? Do I need something called "powersnap"? I think at least some of the snapshot backup test runs did backup something but this is new territory for me.

If someone has a walkthrough that goes a bit beyond the install guide
and config guide, that would be awesome.....

thanks...
rachel



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