SharePoint Content Backup and Restore

Restore individual documents and list items from native SharePoint backups – without building a recovery farm

Microsoft SharePoint products are integral to the document management and collaboration environments at many organizations and SharePoint is often as critical to the business as email or phones. Many administrators find, however, that SharePoint’s integrated tools do not provide satisfactory enterprise restore capabilities. In addition, many discover that the built-in tools are inadequate for many restore scenarios and specifically lack common usage scenarios, such as item-level restore requests.

While several different methods exist for backing up and restoring SharePoint content out of the box, they all differ in approach and execution. Much confusion occurs simply because there are so many ways to back up a SharePoint environment and the different techniques have implications for how the data can be restored. These include:

• Integrated SharePoint Central Admin Farm backup
• SQL database backup
• STSADM site collection backup
• Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) backup

Metalogix’s Selective Restore Manager Pro restores directly from backup files created by SQL, DPM, STSADM, or SharePoint Central Admin. It integrates directly with any or all of the backup approaches listed above. This provides a great deal of deployment flexibility and allows it to be utilized quickly and easily in existing environments.

Metalogix’s Selective Restore Manager Pro is the most flexible and intuitive software available for restoring content from native SharePoint backups without a recovery farm.

It makes SharePoint administrators more productive. They can respond to restore requests in minutes with an intuitive tree view onto back-up content that allows for both in-place and out-of-place recovery. In addition, admins can focus on what’s needed by running differential reports that show the delta between old and new content versions.

It makes organizations more efficient. Selective Restore Manager Pro saves capital and operating expenses by eliminating the hardware costs, software licenses and IT staff time required to build a temporary server farm. Organizations can also avoid costly, redundant, proprietary backup formats.

It makes organizations more compliant. Selective Restore Manager Pro helps to demonstrate regulatory compliance by retaining the original metadata needed to show audit trails. It ensures ongoing Microsoft support by performing all restore operations through the supported SharePoint APIs. There are no un-supported, direct writes to any SharePoint database.