Updated: 2008-04-18

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM) is a server software application that enables data protection and recovery for protected computers within Active Directory domains.

With DPM, an administrator can back up Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 farms. As a part of a farm backup with DPM, the configurations and site collections stored in the configuration and content databases are backed up, but not the search database and index To back up and recover search, use the procedures and scripts provided in this white paper.

To download the white paper and appropriate files from the Microsoft Download Center, see White Paper: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Search Backup for DPM 2007 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=116263&clcid=0x409).