SharePointed

This paper has been long in coming and I think they nailed it.  Announcing a new whitepaper…

Data protection and recovery for Office SharePoint Server in small to medium deployments

   This downloadable white paper explains how administrators managing small-to-medium-size deployments can protect and recover data. It describes data recovery tools and procedures from the item level to the farm level.

Author: Bruno Lancelaeux a Sr. Consultant from OBS.

Although the initial target for this paper was small to medium, the disaster recovery strategies and thoroughness of this 40 page paper including the best information out there on recovering an SSP, recovering any given server in the farm with step by step instructions. 

Again, don’t let the name fool you.  This is the best content that exists on the topic.  Sure there might be more info on mirroring elsewhere, but you really need to understand this content to create your baseline.  The name also implies we have more to give you, which is true as well.

In addition to the Backup/Restore Paper being out the other huge announcement around backup is the RTM of Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM 2007).  Expect to see a lot more information about protecting your SharePoint Servers with DPM 2007 as the team releases detailed whitepapers on backing up your farms and restoring entire farms, databases, lists, and items on a recovery server.  Very reasonably priced as well.

Backup/Restore Paper TOC: 

Executive summary                                                                                            

Levels of data recovery in Office SharePoint Server 2007     

Content recovery                                                                                              

Versioning                                                                                                                    

Recycle Bin                                                                                                                    

Site recovery                                                                                                        

Office SharePoint Designer 2007                                                                                      

Microsoft IT Site Delete Capture feature 1.0 (Web Delete event)                                       

SQL Server database snapshots                                                                                     

Disaster recovery                                                                                               

Office SharePoint Server components                                                                               

Binary files                                                                                                                      

Configurations                                                                                                                  

Customizations                                                                                                               

Content                                                                                                                            

Tools for backing up Office SharePoint Server                                                                

Built-in backup and recovery tools                                                                                      

SQL Server backup and recovery                                                                                       

Windows Server 2003 Backup tool                                                                                    

IIS metabase documentation                                                                                            

Components and backup tools                                                                                       

Planning your disaster recovery strategy                                                                        

Determine likely recovery scenarios                                                                                  

Recommended backup standards                                                                                   

How to perform content recovery, site recovery, and disaster recovery tasks                                                                                                                            

Content recovery                                                                                                              

Versioning                                                                                                                      

Recycle Bin                                                                                                                    

Site recovery                                                                                                                    

Use Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to back up a Web site                                               

Use Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to restore a Web site                                                

Use Microsoft IT Site Delete Capture 1.0 to capture and restore deleted Web sites                

Create and view a database snapshot of an Office SharePoint Server content database           

Disaster recovery                                                                                                               

Backup procedures                                                                                                          

Recovery                                                                                                                                                                                  

Joel Oleson