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Backup SharePoint 2003 with Backup Exec 11D

Last post 04-22-2008, 11:51 AM by tah. 1 replies.
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  •  04-21-2008, 4:48 PM 29564

    Backup SharePoint 2003 with Backup Exec 11D

    I was curious if anyone is using Backup Exec 11D to backup their SharePoint environment.  I have multiple content databases and it appears that I have a weird situation in where I am using the SharePoint option and BE11D is backing up the databases, but its not backing up the information in the databases.  It sees the folder structure, and the lists and such, but its not capturing the contents.  When I go to the MEdia server to do a restore, I can traverse the site and traverse the folders, but nothing is in the folders.

     

    Just curious if anyone has ran into that? 

  •  04-22-2008, 11:51 AM 29567 in reply to 29564

    Re: Backup SharePoint 2003 with Backup Exec 11D

    Several of my clients who've attempting to use 11d for SharePoint backups ran into the same problem (or very similar problems).  To be honest, there were a number of issues we ran into when using BackupExec to backup SP.  (Restore failures anyone?)  A number of my clients are now using other solutions (most of them use DocAve) to backup their SP deployments.  In my experiance, DocAve is just a better fit for SharePoint...it's faster on backup and restores (like a lot faster...10x, when Symantec restores even succeed), and it gives you full-fidelity restoration, which BackupExec doesn't yet do.  (I think in BE only docs can be restored individually, not list items, events, links, tasks, contacts, etc...and even then the doc versions, created date, and modified date are not restored properly, which stinks.)  Anyhow, sorry I dont have a work-around for your present situation...I never found one, so my clients just went outside Symantec.  Thankfully, (for what it's worth), the DocAve stuff was compatible with BackupExec and could be run concurrently - with DocAve handling the SP stuff and Symantec handling the other network protection.  (I think most of the other SP data protection solution providers do too.)  Symantec just hasn't quite come up-to-speed with their SharePoint solution yet.

      

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