How to create the DPMRecoveryWebApplication

1.   Open the SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration console from the Start Menu.

2.   Once the SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration console is open, click on the Application Management tab which opens to display all of the various options for managing your SharePoint installation.

3.   Under the SharePoint Web Application Management heading, click on the Create or Extend Web application.

4.   The Create or Extend Web application page appears with two options. Choose Create a new Web application.

5.   After clicking the Create a new Web application link, the Create New Web Application page appears displaying various necessary fields for details about the web application that is being created. Here is a brief summary of the important fields of this page.

o   Chose the Create a new IIS web site and in the description, name it “DPMRecoveryWebApplication”.

o   In the Port field, give it a unique port which is not shared by any other internal application.

o   The Host Header and Path fields can remain unchanged.

o   Scroll down to the radio button Create new application pool and in the Application pool name box, note that the entry name includes the port number and the SharePoint recovery server name.

o   Under the Select a security account for this application pool, select the Configurable radio button and type in a suitable account and password in the fields that follow.

This is the last entry to make before hitting OK to have the web application created. Upon completion of the DPMRecoveryWebApplication web application, Application Created screen appears. At this point, schedule time to run ‘iisreset /noforce’.

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Share Point Recovery -- Site recovery on the share point farm itself

Before DPM can be used to recover any individual site/contents on to a protected Farm, following requirements needs to be completed:

1)   An additional dummy SharePoint farm [called as Recovery Farm] is required.

2)   This farm may be a single server and may be hosted in a virtual environment. If you are recovering a WSS 3.0 site, your recovery farm should be WSS 3.0; if you are recovering a MOSS site, your recovery farm should also be MOSS.

3)   The list of features and templates present on the recovery farm must be the same as those on the production farm that is SharePoint Farm build and the SQL SKU installed should be same as the original production farm.

4)   On the Recovery Farm, create a DPMRecoveryWebApplication which would be used by the DPM Application to restore the data on production farm.

5)   Once the Recovery Farm is online, install the DPM Agent, attach the Recovery Farm to the same DPM server and run Configure Protection.exe to configure the WSS Writer.

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Share Point Recovery -- Restore the Farm to a Network Folder

Note: Only, if the recovery point was created from an express full backup rather than an incremental synchronization, then you have the option to recover a site to a network folder.

§  Click the Recovery tab.

§  Expand Data on Disk and Tapes->DPM Server->SharePoint Server->and click All Protected SharePoint Data.

§  In the Recoverable Item list, Select SharePointFarm\SharePoint_Config.

§  Click Recover.

§  On the Review Recovery Selection page, click Next.

§  On the Select Recovery Type page, select Copy all SharePoint content and components to a network folder.

§  Click Browse.

§  Expand SharePoint Server->Volumes/Shares->select the Network folder and click OK.

§  Click Next.

§  On the Specify Recovery Options page, click Next.

§  On the Summary page, click Recover.

§  Wait until the recovery status is successful and then click Close.

§  Wait until the status is successful and then click Close

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Microsoft System Data Protection Manager 2007 – Recovering SharePoint Server

In this series, I will cover three main sections as follows:

Share Point Recovery -- Restoring the SharePoint at Farm level.

Share Point Recovery -- Restore the Farm to a Network Folder.

Share Point Recovery -- Site recovery on the share point farm itself.

SharePoint Recovery Options using DPM

Data Protection Manager 2007 can be used to protect the data on SharePoint server 2007 and Windows SharePoint services 3.0. DPM can protect the SharePoint at the farm level and can be used for recovering the data at multiple levels like:

·         Farm

·         Content databases

·         Sites

·         Webs/Sub Sites

·         Lists

·         Items/Documents

Share Point Recovery -- Restoring the SharePoint at Farm level.

Please follow the steps given below to restore the complete SharePoint production farm:

1.   Click the Recovery tab.

2.   Expand Data on Disk and Tapes--<Server Name>--MOSS27 and click All Protected SharePoint Data.

3.   In the Recoverable Item list, select SharePoint under the SharePoint Farm

4.   Click Recover

5.   On the Review Recovery Selection page, click Next

6.   On the Select Recovery Type page, point to Recover All SharePoint content and components

7.   Click Next

8.   On the Specify Recovery Options page, click Next

9.   On the Summary page, click Recover

Wait until the status is successful and then click Close

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