Microsoft SharePoint Restoration

Restoring Microsoft SharePoint with Ontrack PowerControls

Fully restoring a Microsoft^® SharePoint^® site from a previous backup or from a snapshot can be a time-consuming and expensive process.

You can restore the full backup directly to your production SharePoint server, which will eliminate the need and expense of a recovery server – but this may take several hours and potentially make the server inaccessible for some time. Restoring directly to your production server also overwrites all of the current data on it, which is usually not desirable.

Alternatively, you could set up a recovery server that mirrors the configuration of the production SharePoint server and then restore the whole site to that server. However, servers are costly and the added expense of the necessary hardware seems exorbitant when all you need to do is search for and recover a few crucial items.

Ontrack PowerControls gives you a much better option for restoring individual items, lists, libraries and folders. By directly reading your existing content database backups, and allowing you to quickly find and restore only the items you need, Ontrack PowerControls saves you significant time and eliminates the need for a recovery server.

Ontrack PowerControls ExtractWizard, an application included with the software, will read SharePoint database backups and give you the ability to restore a SharePoint MDF from tape.

Eliminate Same-Site Restore Constraints

Many SharePoint backup and recovery programs only allow you to restore the data to the same or a duplicate server - Ontrack PowerControls does not have this constraint.

Restore items directly to a production SharePoint server, another SharePoint server or to a file system, removing the need for an expensive recovery server and alleviating extra steps required to separately import sites back into a SharePoint server.

Maintain Data Integrity

When requests for SharePoint data restoration arise due to a legal or compliance matter, it can be critical to keep the metadata of restored items intact. It is imperative to understand and comply with the regulations and expectations pertaining to exporting documents for litigation or e-disclosure versus simply restoring those items for internal business purposes. Ontrack PowerControls does not change the metadata of the SharePoint source or target and maintains data integrity by performing read-only operations on the source files.

Ontrack PowerControls will not alter data when accessing the target and maintains integrity throughout the restoration process.