Microsoft SharePoint Protection

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:

     About SharePoint protection

     Executing SharePoint backups

     Viewing SharePoint backups

     Restoring SharePoint backups