This chapter describes procedures used to protect Microsoft SharePoint environments. Unitrends leverages native SharePoint data protection to provide all-in-one backup, archiving, replication, and recovery of SharePoint farms.
Unitrends protects the following SharePoint environments:
• Deployments where the SharePoint installation type is single server and all SharePoint data and components reside on one server.
• Deployments where the SharePoint installation type is full farm and the SharePoint data and components reside on one to many servers.
Note: If your SharePoint farm is a single server deployment and the SharePoint server is a VMware virtual machine, you can either run vProtect application-aware backups as described in the Protecting VMware Infrastructure chapter, or install the Windows agent and implement protection as described here. For a comparison of each strategy, see Best practices for protecting VMware virtual machines. For multi-node farms, you must install the Windows agent. vProtect backup is not supported for multi-node farms.
See the following topics for details: