SharePoint Data Protection

Data Protection for Microsoft SharePoint® Servers with Dell AppAssure 5

In today’s businesses, SharePoint has become a key way to share ideas and expertise and to collaborate in the development of new information. With all your users depending on this rapidly changing information, it is imperative that you back up SharePoint frequently – and be able to fully recover quickly – in the event that disaster strikes.

AppAssure 5 answers your SharePoint needs with advanced four-way data protection, part of a comprehensive backup, recovery and replication solution for Windows and Linux environments.

• No-impact backups. Dell AppAssure 5 hot backups don’t require taking a server offline, nor do they slow it down.
• Near-zero recovery point objective (RPO). With backups every five minutes, AppAssure delivers outstanding recovery point granularity – a maximum of 288 recovery points every 24 hours.
• Near-zero recovery time objective (RTO). AppAssure Live Recovery allows users to begin using SharePoint files in 15 minutes or less after a failure regardless of how much data is involved. For even faster recoveries, AppAssure’s powerful replication function allows you to simply turn on a preconfigured, up-to-date spare VM machine if your SharePoint Server goes down.
• Certain Recovery. AppAssure ensures reliable and transactionally consistent backups of SharePoint (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007), Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) – free license and SharePoint 2007 and 2010). If AppAssure says a backup is good, you can be certain it’s recoverable.

Reduces administrative costs
Deploying a Dell AppAssure 5 SharePoint Agent on a SharePoint Server takes only minutes. Its web-based Central Management Console allows administrators to back up and recover SharePoint (files, lists) components without requiring knowledge of SharePoint internals or deep knowledge of backup and recovery schemes.

Implements cloud-based backup
Dell AppAssure 5 can implement any cloud-based SharePoint backup. This eliminates the need for dedicated and costly hardware, and eliminates your reliance on unwieldy tape media.

Scalable for Microsoft SharePoint server environments
Dell AppAssure 5 provides businesses with a simplified management tool for online backup that scales with your business and ensures important SharePoint documents and list items databases and email files are backed up safely and easily accessible.

Performs granular recovery on a Microsoft SharePoint Server file, list, and objects
AppAssure 5 provides a granular level backup and recovery of individual folders, documents or even a single object. The extracted SharePoint files are encrypted and then transferred to the backup server. Modifications made to the SharePoint sites, files, and objects are automatically recorded on the incremental backup. The same single-pass backup also allows complete system-level recovery.

Dell AppAssure 5 software leverages integration with Microsoft SharePoint Server® for complete disaster data protection. Advantages of Dell AppAssure 5 data protection of SharePoint servers include:

Application-aware backups of Microsoft SharePoint applications

VMware, Hyper-V, and XenServer support

AppAssure 5 can export any SharePoint protected or replicated machine to VMware or Hyper-V. Exports can be ad hoc or continuous. With continuous exports, the virtual machine is incrementally updated after every snapshot. The incremental updates are very fast, so standby-clones are ready to power up with a click of a button. The formats for export are VMware Workstation/Server on a folder, direct export to vSphere / vmWare ESX/ESXi host and Microsoft Server 2008/R2 Hyper-V.

Create a virtual standby machine for your Microsoft SharePoint Servers

Create and maintain an up-to-date virtual standby machine for fast disaster recovery for SharePoint. The bootable virtual machine is an exact clone of the production server as of the last snapshot.

Bare Metal Restore to similar or dissimilar hardware, or to virtual machines

AppAssure Universal Recovery allows complete recovery flexibility.

AppAssure 5 can export any SharePoint protected or replicated machine to VMware or Hyper-V. Exports can be ad hoc or continuous. With continuous exports, the virtual machine is incrementally updated after every snapshot. The incremental updates are very fast, so standby-clones are ready to power up with a click of a button. The formats for export are VMware Workstation/Server on a folder, direct export to vSphere / vmWare ESX/ESXi host and Microsoft Server 2008/R2 Hyper-V.

Easily converts Microsoft SharePoint snapshots to virtual snapshots

Convert snapshots to VMware ESX/ESXi, VMware server 2.0, VMware workstation 6.x and Hyper-V, Virtual server 2005.

Live Recovery TM for instant recovery of servers

Restore an entire SharePoint server from your backup with an RTO of minutes rather than hours. Flexible recovery options of a SharePoint server to any location from the backup file directly onto any virtual or physical machine without having to wait to extract the full backup to production storage. Choose from as many as 288 recovery points a day to deliver an RPO of minutes.

Disaster recovery software that meets your business recovery objectives

No need to snapshot your environment twice like with competitive solutions. Simply run your backup job, and then replicate to a secondary source.

• Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP1 Rollup 5 or later
• Microsoft Exchange 2010
• Microsoft Exchange 2010 Support for Microsoft Exchange 2010 Database Availability Group (DAG)
• Support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) and Single Copy Clusters (SCC)

The full list of system requirements for Dell AppAssure 5 is here.

Learn more how AppAssure 5 protects MS Exchange and MS SQL Server.