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Backup and Restore: Overview

Data backups are a necessity in today's workplace as protection for any unforeseen event or circumstances
that might warrant restoring a database or a complete disaster recovery. Developing plans and procedures
for recovering from failures before they occur is critical for minimizing lost productivity in the event of a
server crash, database corruption, or any other form of data loss.

Backup and Recovery Data Protection Solutions

This section provides an overview of the tools you can use for content backups and retrieval at various
levels of granularity in Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Content Recovery

Content recovery applies to being prepared for accidental updates or deletions of data, usually by end
users. This happens frequently and the impact is usually small. Content can be recovered in the following
ways:

From the Recycle Bin

Through versioning of content

Site Collection Backup and Restore (Referred to as SC B/R in the table below)

By using the Web delete event. The SharePoint object model allows developers to build custom
backup applications at the Web Delete event.

Disaster Recovery (Catastrophic Restore Operation)

Disaster recovery operations are performed only when a fatal disaster occurs, which usually involves
replacement of hardware and sometimes re-installation and setup of software. Disaster recovery requires a
full server farm or database. SharePoint Server provides the following for disaster recovery:

Provides an extensible framework for third-party applications via SharePoint Backup and Restore
(Referred to as SharePoint B/R in the table below).

SharePoint Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) Writer. VSS provides a centralized framework for all
server applications.

SQL-only backup and restore operation.

Log-shipping mirror farm.

Solutions Matrix

The following table shows the various backup and restore solution options supported by Office SharePoint
Server 2007 and the level of granularity offered by each solution.

Web
Solution\ Log- SharePoint Recycle SC Delete Content
Object SQL Only Ship B/R VSS Writer Bin Versioning B/R Event Migration

Farm Yes Yes

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Configuration Yes, if Yes, if Yes, if

database restored to restored to restored
the same the same to the
configuration. configuration. same
instance.

Web Yes
application

Content Yes Yes Yes Yes

database

third-party Yes Yes Yes Yes

database

Site collection Yes

Web site Yes Yes

List/document Yes Yes

library

Document Yes Yes

library folder

Document Yes Yes Yes

library file

List item Yes Yes Yes

Version Yes Yes Yes

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Config db restore Last Edit 4:39 PM by GeorgeWangAtSomeCompany

It seems MOSS 2007 backup/restore and VSS writer do not restore config db. Could you confirm that
the config db row is up to date?

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