Recovering SharePoint Data
Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2007
The following points apply to the recovery of SharePoint data:
Item details will not appear on the Recovery Wizard Summary page for Windows SharePoint sites and items.
The Central administration content database is the first content database created with the Central Administration site when you set up your farm. Do not directly recover the administration content database because this could lead to data corruption in the SharePoint farm.
Do not directly recover the Config database because this could lead to data corruption in the SharePoint farm.
The recovery point times on the Browse tab may differ from the times on the Search tab for SharePoint data. The Search tab lists the correct recovery point time for sites, documents, and folders. The Browse tab displays the backup time for the farm.
Documents in SharePoint could be in one of the following states if document versioning is enabled:
Created not checked in - Visible only to the creator
Checked in - Visible to administrator and users with permission to publish
Published - Visible to users with permission to approve
Approved - Visible to all viewers
When you recover SharePoint data, only documents that are checked in, published, or approved are recovered. The following documents cannot be restored:
Documents not checked in on the user machine.
Documents either in the user Recycle Bin or in the site collection Recycle Bin.
You cannot restore documents removed from the recycle bin through a site collection restore. You have to do a farm restore to a version where the documents were deleted and put in the recycle bin.
In This Section
Recovering a SharePoint Web Application
Recovering a SharePoint Farm Using Databases with SQL Server Aliases
Recovering a SharePoint Farm Using Mirrored Databases
Recovering a SharePoint Site Collection