Backup of Sharepoint Portal Server

[johnny99]

I am looking for a way to backup our Sharepoint Portal Servers but I can't find any agents for NetBackup.

Anyone out there that has solved the problem?

/johnny

 

[Guest_imported]

Veritas Backup have an agent for Sharepoint Portal Server. Details to be found on their web site:

http://www.veritas.com/products/producthome.jhtml

Not used in earnest as yet. We are investigating all backup agents for Sharepoint so any further info will let you know.

 

[chester27]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q281413

We use this at the moment, and have recovered successfully as well.

Thanks WotNot will have a look at the Veritas agent.

 

[johnny99]

Thanks for the info, but the link

http://www.veritas.com/products/producthome.jhtml

goes nowhere and what I need is an agent that will work with Veritas NetBackup

/johnny

 

[chester27]

TRY THIS

http://www.veritas.com/products/cat...sionid=MTOVP4XR0SSSHQFIYBTCFEY?productId=msps

 

[johnny99]

Thanks for the link, but the agent is for BackupExec, and I don't want to downgrade to BackupExec from NetBackup

/johnny

 

[einarsen]

Veritas eh? We have a copy of Backup Exec that we couldn't get to work on Windows 2000... maybe time for an upgrade.

Has anyone restored SPS from a Veritas backup? Or are we on our own on this one?

--Brad

 

[moxy]

backupexec is pretty cheap, you could use it with the SPS agent and backup to disk first, then backup off of disk to tape using your netbackup agent.

 

[johnny99]

I have been thinking about the same, but it's a shitty way to do it.
We have around 350 users that will use our SPS system, but yesterday our CIO asked me to start planning for 650 new users.
I can't stop thinking about how many documents and how much data we will have in SPS in one year.
Number of documents could run into 1.000.000

/johnny

 

[einarsen]

Ya'know...

What I really want is a tool that will extract all documents from the SharePoint "Metabase" and put them on disk. Then I could use NTBackup to backup those files...

This could certainly be scripted but I wonder if a tool already exists.

This would get around my #1 fear relating to SharePoint ... the fact that all documents are stored in the Web Storage System (WSS) metabase (and are inaccessible from the file system).

Anyone know of such an extraction tool?

Thanks,
Brad