Upgrading SharePoint

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Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010

If you are moving from an earlier version of SharePoint to a later version of SharePoint 2010 (for example, upgrading MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010), you must reconfigure protection of the data.

The following are the two scenarios when a SharePoint farm is updated:

  • SQL Server hardware upgrade

  • When instances of SQL Server do not change

SQL Server Hardware Upgrade

If the hardware of the computer that is running SQL Server is upgraded, then the databases are moved from one instance of SQL Server to another. During the upgrade process, both the farms are online with the older one being read-only (databases are moved in phases). You can protect the new SharePoint farm during upgrade. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Install DPM protection agents on the new SharePoint farm servers.

  2. Protect the SharePoint farm as a new SharePoint farm.

  3. Move databases from the old farm to the new farm.

    Note

    DPM will automatically discover the moved databases in the new farm and start protecting them. DPM generates a warning alert - Farm Configuration Changed for the old SharePoint farm. You can ignore this alert.

  4. When all the databases are moved to the new server, perform Stop protection of the old SharePoint farm with the retain data option.

When Instances of SQL Server Do Not Change

When instances of SQL Server do not change and databases are detached from the existing farm and added to the upgraded farm, follow these steps:

  1. Create a recovery point for the SharePoint farm on the DPM server (for example, DPMServer1).

  2. Perform Stop protection of the SharePoint farm on DPMServer1 by selecting the Retain Replica option.

  3. Run SetDPMServer.exe on all the servers of the SharePoint farm to point the DPM agent to another DPM server (for example, DPMServer2).

  4. Protect the SharePoint farm by using DPMServer2.

  5. When the retention range for all the recovery points expires on DPMServer1, delete the protected data on DPMServer1 by using the Remove Inactive Protection option.