Saturday, March 7, 2009

SharePoint 2007 Backup/Restore options and things to consider

Going through the native Sharepoint backup, I've found some limitations I'd like to shed some light on. The backup:
  • does not Provide Scheduling Functionality. You must use the command line with Windows Task Scheduler for scheduled backups
  • does not Backup any Configurations/Customizations to any files in the “12 Hive” or Web.config files. You must manually back up front end files.
  • does not Backup IIS Settings/Configurations
  • does not Backup Alternate Access Mappings (AAM)
  • dannot Backup Directly to Tape (only to UNC)
  • high restore time means low availability
If using the SQL Only Backup/restore strategy, you'll have the following issues to consider:
  • it does not backup any WFE configurations or solutions
  • it requires Admin to manually reattach content databases to the web applications after a recovery
  • you'll need to manually backup/restore all customizations on WFE Servers (.Net Assemblies, Features, IIS Metabase, etc. – batch file can help automate this process)
  • no need to backup Search database (as it can’t be synchronized with Search Index)
  • backup/restore of SSP separately via SharePoint native backup/restore

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