Recovering a SharePoint Item
Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2007
You can recover SharePoint items, such as lists and documents, from a DPM recovery point to the original site or to an alternate site.
When you restore an item, DPM restores the database to the recovery farm, extracts the item from the recovery farm, and imports it into the target farm. During this process, DPM creates a temporary file on the recovery farm at a location specified in the Recovery Wizard. You should periodically delete the temporary files at that location.
To recover an item to its original location
Create a farm that DPM can use for the recovery. For more information, go to Creating a Recovery Farm.
In DPM Administrator Console, click Recovery on the navigation bar.
In the Protected data pane, expand the server that contains the farm you want to recover, double-click All Protected SharePoint Data, and then double-click the server farm name.
Content databases display in the Recoverable item pane.
Use the calendar and Recovery time menu to select a recovery point.
In the Recoverable item pane, select the content database, browse to the item that you want to recover and select it.
Note
You can only select and recover one object at a time. If you want to recover more than one object, consider recovering a higher level folder to an alternate location and then recovering the individual objects from the SharePoint Central Administration Website.
Click Recover in the Actions pane and confirm the recovery details on the Review Recovery Selection page.
On the Select Recovery Type page, select Recover to original site.
On the Specify Recovery Farm page, enter the information for the recovery farm you created in step 1, and then complete the wizard.
Either type in the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) of the recovery farm where the DPMRecoveryWebApplication has been created or browse for the server. Once the server has been selected, browse for the SQL instance on that server. Lastly choose the temporary location where the files will be stored on the recovery farm.
Note
The recovery farm must have enough disk space to store the largest content database in the environment. Best practice would dictate that an additional 10-20% be allocated on the temporary storage volume to provide a cushion for growth and reduce the risk of running out of space when trying to recover time-sensitive SharePoint data.
On the Specify Staging Location page, enter a directory where the SharePoint data will be temporarily stored pending recovery to the original site.
On the Specify Recovery Options page, specify whether the recovery point’s security settings or the original site’s security settings will be applied to the recovered data object in the Restore Security section.
This is an important consideration if there have been security settings changes since the recovery point was taken.
Note
The network bandwidth usage throttling is used when there are concerns about the restore process consuming excessive bandwidth.
The SAN Recovery option is only available if the attached SAN is capable of snapping clones and splitting clones. The Notification section is simply to notify administrators and other personnel of the completion of the recovery process.Confirm the settings on the Summary page and click Recover to begin the process.
To recover an object to an alternate location
Note
An alternate location can be on the same SharePoint farm and merely using a different site name or port number.
Create a farm that DPM can use for the recovery. For more information, go to Creating a Recovery Farm.
In DPM Administrator Console, click Recovery on the Actions pane.
In the Protected data pane, expand the server that contains the farm you want to recover, double-click All Protected SharePoint Data, and then double-click the server farm name.
Content databases display in the Recoverable item pane.
Use the calendar and Recovery time menu to select a recovery point.
In the Recoverable item pane, select the content database and browse to the item you wish to recover.
Note
You can only select and recover one object at a time. If you want to recover more than one object, consider recovering a higher level folder to an alternate location and then recovering the individual objects from within the SharePoint Central Administration website.
Click Recover in the Actions pane and confirm the recovery details in the Review Recovery Selection page.
On the Select Recovery Type page, select Recover to an alternate site.
On the Specify Recovery Farm page, enter the information for the recovery farm you created in step 1, and then complete the wizard.
Either type the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) of the recovery farm where DPMRecoveryWebApplication has been created or browse for the server. Once the server has been selected, browse for the SQL instance on that server. Finally choose the temporary location where the files will be stored on the recovery farm.
In the Recovery target site section, enter the alternate site’s URL in the Target site URL: field.
Note
The site URL entered into the Target site URL field must be based on the same site template as the site hosting the object which is being restored. For example, SharePoint will not allow an object created in a site using a ‘Wiki Site’ template to be restored onto a site created using the ‘Team Site’, ‘Blank Site’, ‘Blog’, or ‘Document Workspace’ templates. If custom templates have been used, those same templates must reside on the recovery farm as well as having been used to create the alternate site where the recovery is being made to.
On the Specify Staging Location page, enter a directory where the SharePoint data will be temporarily stored pending recovery to the alternate site.
On the Specify Recovery Options page, specify whether the recovery point’s security settings and metadata for the object being recovered or the alternate site’s security settings will be applied to the recovered data object in the Restore Security section. This is an important consideration if there have been security settings changes since the recovery point was taken.
Note
The network bandwidth usage throttling is used when there are concerns about the restore process consuming excessive bandwidth from bandwidth sensitive applications.
The SAN Recovery option is only available if the attached SAN is capable of snapping clones and splitting clones. The Notification section notifies the administrators and other personnel of the completion of the recovery process.Confirm the settings on the Summary page and then click Recover to begin the process.