Hi
If you are using Unitrends and SharePoint are you backing up your SharePoint Farm via the Unitrends Application aware backup or just backing up the SQL Databases supporting the SharePoint Farm.
Are you using the Kroll OnTrack Power Tools for Item level recovery of SharePoint Documents and libraries?
I am a bit confused by the statement below copied from a Unitrends Support Document on how to backup SharePoint.
"If the total data size in your SharePoint environment is less than 250 GB, run a weekly SharePoint full with daily SharePoint differentials.
If the total data size in your SharePoint environment is greater than or equal to 250 GB, consider running a weekly SharePoint full during the period of least network activity. In addition, run SQL fulls plus differentials (if databases are in simple recovery mode) or transactionals (if databases are in full recovery mode) between SharePoint fulls.
Things to note:
- If you’re running SQL backups in addition to the SharePoint backups, the first SQL backup after the SharePoint full must be a SQL full. You can then run differentials or transactionals.
- It is not possible to perform item-level restores from SharePoint Differentials with Kroll Ontrack PowerControls for SharePoint. Restore from a SharePoint Full or SQL backup instead."
Our SharePoint Environment is around 250Gb over 3 Farms. At the moment we backup our SQL Databases using the built in SQL Backup. We run full backups weekly and transactional log backups every 4 hours.
So the question is. Is there any point in Backing up the SharePoint Farms using the Unitrends Application backup when we are already doing SQL Backups?
If anyone is using Kroll, how have you found it? If I have read correctly to get SharePoint Item Level recovery I just need to point Kroll at he SQL Backups of SharePoint.
apologies for the long post. I hope someone can help clarify things for me.
Regards
Kevan