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Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up SharePoint

2007-09-12 09:56:58
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up SharePoint
From: "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson AT dsto.defence.gov DOT au>
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:35:30 +0800
    0n Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 11:17:03AM -0400, Sesar, Steven L. wrote: 
   
    >There are third-party backup applications which perform document-level
    >backups of Sharepoint - caveat emptor. They all rely on an extremely
    >slow  and inefficient API that MS is not going to fix, as it would
    >require a substantial rewrite of their 2003 code. In 2007, there is a
    >way to leverage recycle bins, in order to facilitate doc-level backups,
    >but I don't know offhand the details of that.

NB 6.5 will make life much easier for backup and recovery of SharePoint.

  "For Microsoft SharePoint environments, NetBackup 6.5 offers database and
   document-level recovery from the same backup, eliminating the need for 
multiple
   backups of the same system."

   [http://www.symantec.com/about/news/release/article.jsp?prid=20070612_02]

 -aW

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