Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft SharePoint Server Administrator's Guide
- Introducing NetBackup for SharePoint Server
- About NetBackup for SharePoint Server
- Features of NetBackup for SharePoint
- SharePoint Server backup operations
- About the contents of a SharePoint Server backup and a SharePoint Foundation backup
- SharePoint Server restore operations
- Limitations on SharePoint Server backups and restores
- NetBackup File System Daemon
- Installing NetBackup for SharePoint Server
- Planning the installation of NetBackup for SharePoint
- Verifying the operating system and platform compatibility
- NetBackup server and client requirements
- SharePoint server software requirements
- Requirements for installing the SQL Server back-end servers in a cluster
- About the license for NetBackup for SharePoint
- Installing and configuring NFS for SharePoint Granular Recovery
- About installing and configuring Network File System (NFS) for SharePoint Granular Recovery
- Requirements for SharePoint Granular Recovery
- Configurations that are supported for SharePoint Granular Recovery
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2012, 2012 R2, or 2016
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2008 and 2008 R2
- Configuring a UNIX media server and Windows clients for backups and restores that use Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- Configuring a different network port for NBFSD
- Configuring NetBackup for SharePoint Server
- About configuring NetBackup for SharePoint
- About a SharePoint non-granular backup vs. a backup that uses Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- Configuring a SharePoint backup that uses Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- Configuring the logon account for the NetBackup Client Service for NetBackup for SharePoint
- Configuring the logon account for the NetBackup Legacy Network Service for NetBackup for SharePoint
- Configuring SharePoint client host properties
- Configuring mappings for restores of a distributed application, cluster, or virtual machine
- Reviewing the auto-discovered mappings in Host Management
- Performing a manual backup
- Configuring NetBackup for SharePoint backup policies
- About backup policies for granular backup and recovery of SharePoint Server
- About backup policies for SharePoint farm backup and recovery
- About backup policies for disaster recovery of SharePoint Server
- About VMware backup policies that protect SharePoint Server
- About configuring a backup policy for SharePoint
- Performing backups and restores of SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation
- About user-directed backups of SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation
- About restores of SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation
- Specifying the server, client, and the policy type for a SharePoint Server restore operation
- Restore options for SharePoint Server on the Microsoft SharePoint tab
- Restore options for SharePoint Server on the General tab
- How the NetBackup Recovery Assistant restores SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation
- Restoring SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation
- Restoring the SharePoint Search Service Application
- About requirements for restores of individual SharePoint items using Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- Restoring individual SharePoint items from full database backups
- Recovering a SharePoint Web application in a farm with multiple front-end servers
- Restoring a deleted SharePoint list
- Redirecting a restore of a SharePoint web application within a farm
- Redirecting a restore of a SharePoint Web application to another farm
- Redirecting the restore of a SharePoint Server Web application content database to an alternate SQL instance
- Redirecting individual SharePoint items to a file path (SharePoint 2010)
- Protecting SharePoint Server data with VMware backups
- Disaster recovery
- Troubleshooting
- About NetBackup for SharePoint debug logging
- About NetBackup status reports
- Restores to different SharePoint service pack or different cumulative update levels
- Modified system files or ghost files are not cataloged or restored during a site collection restore
- Troubleshooting SharePoint jobs that use Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- About troubleshooting SharePoint restore operations
- About NetBackup for SharePoint and client-side deduplication
- Troubleshooting VMware backups and restores of SharePoint Server
About installing and configuring Network File System (NFS) for SharePoint Granular Recovery
NetBackup Granular Recovery leverages Network File System, or NFS, to read individual objects from a database backup image. Specifically, the NetBackup client uses NFS to extract data from the backup image on the NetBackup media server. The NetBackup client uses "Client for NFS" to mount and access a mapped drive that is connected to the NetBackup media server. The NetBackup media server handles the I/O requests from the client through NBFSD.
NBFSD is the NetBackup File System (NBFS) service that runs on the media server. NBFSD makes a NetBackup backup image appear as a file system folder to the NetBackup client over a secure connection.
Network File System, or NFS, is a widely recognized, open standard for client and server file access over a network. It allows clients to access files on dissimilar servers through a shared TCP/IP network. NFS is typically bundled with the host operating system. NetBackup uses Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) and NFS to recover the individual objects that reside within a database backup image, such as:
A user account from an Active Directory database backup
Email messages or folders from an Exchange database backup
A document from a SharePoint database backup
Multiple NetBackup agents that support GRT (for example, Exchange, SharePoint, and Active Directory) can use the same media server.
Note:
If you do not correctly configure NFS, restores of individual items using GRT fail with an error 223 (An invalid entry was encountered).