Recovering Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SSP Search
Applies To: System Center 2012 - Data Protection Manager, System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager, System Center 2012 SP1 - Data Protection Manager
To recover Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SSP Search
Start the Recovery wizard from the DPM Administrator Console.
Select the point in time from which you want to recover data. The Recovery wizard displays the Shared Services Provider (SSP) components for the Microsoft Office SharePoint farm.
Important
If you recover the data to the original location, you must delete the SSP and its index files from the original location before you proceed with recovery. This must be done even if the default SSP uses the -Force parameter. The location details of these files are available on the Summary page of the Recovery wizard.
After the recovery process is completed, you must run RestoreSSP command on the protected computer with the KeepIndex parameter to ensure that the index file is not reset during the process of recreating the SSP.
To recover an index with mirrored database in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SSP Search
If the SharePoint farm uses a mirrored database, you cannot recover the index to the original location. In this case, you must recover the individual components of the index and manually reattach them to the instance of the SQL Server.
Break the mirroring session of the mirrored SSP databases.
Start the Recovery wizard from DPM Administrator Console.
Select the point in time from which you want to recover data.
The Recovery wizard displays SSP components for the SharePoint farm.Recover the individual items to a temporary location and then host the databases to the instance of SQL Server manually.
Run the RestoreSSP command on the protected computer with the KeepIndex parameter to ensure that the index file is not reset during the process of recreating the SSP.