thanks for everyone who inputed to this question. Lots of good information here.
Mark
--- On Thu, 25/3/10, brerrabbit <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM>
wrote:
From: brerrabbit <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM>
Subject: [Networker] backup of share point server
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thursday, 25 March, 2010, 13:25
johannes wrote:
> Hi Dan.
>
> The other tool you mention to backup SarePoint. What is it? I'm very
> interested in knowing what others are using with positive results to backup
> SharePoint. We are very unhappy about NMM.
>
> We have used the NMM module to backup everything Microsoft. It's very fragile
> even now with NMM 2.2 build 96. It's very complex to setup and needs too much
> configuration on the client, but also on the NetWorker server. EMC seems too
> have limited resources to support NMM and that has given us too much
> headaches.
>
> I hope EMC is going to either do something drastic with NMM or start with
> something new.
>
> Johannes
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER < at > LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU]
> On Behalf Of Ryan, Dan
> Sent: 24. mars 2010 01:54
> To: NETWORKER < at > LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] backup of share point server
>
> I believe the correct method for the later version of SharePoint (2007) is to
> use Networker Module for Microsoft Applications (NMM). We investigated it
> at our company but found that other tools exist that do a better job of
> granular recovery that required less headaches than NMM could do. Plus, the
> other tools out provided more admin and maintenance features than just
> backup/restore for recovery. Also, at the time when we looked at it, NMM
> didn't seem to be very stable and there was very little documentation other
> than the admin guide (which I thought was very weak).
>
> Dan Ryan
>
> <snip>
>
>
The future of MS application backups is NMM, but to be fair, it's because
Microsoft has mandated that all of their applications will leverage VSS in the
future. I also strongly prefer the existing agents, I dread the prospect of
shifting to NMM when the Exchange module is no longer supported, and I know at
some point we'll have to cut over to it to do Sharepoint too (currently we use
the native Avamar agent). The good news is that I think that the Networker
folks know that NMM is ... err ... crud ... right now. Based on some posts
over at the Networker Community site at EMC, they've point blank acknowledged
that it is too complicated to set up and that running it is hard. Hopefully
that will translate into a much stronger product...and they have to do that,
how can they hope to compete in the Enterprise market space if they can't make
the agent that backs up all things Microsoft work well?
Back to Sharepoint - EMC hosted some webcasts recently about Sharepoint, one of
which was specifically about backups and DR. They were recorded, if you click
on the "register" link here:
http://info.emc.com/mk/get/DBM6473-4100_raf_lp?reg_src=IN
you can access the recordings. Several things were noteworthy, they covered
backups at different scales, what can be recovered (and what can't) when doing
backups of the databases versus backups with an agent. They also mentioned
Kroll Ontrack Tools as a utility suite to get additional granularity.
HTH
--brerrabbit
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