I've read through the Netbackup Sharepoint Admin Guide and implemented to the best of my ability, but I still have some questions and I'm still having problems getting the backups to work. Any help is appreciated. Netbackup environment: everything is running Netbackup Enterprise Server 7.1 Master Server and 3 Media Servers are long standing Windows Server 2003 with a StorageTek 40 tape Library In order to GRT with Sharepoint, I just added a Windows Server 2008 Media Server (32-bit) w/ 136GB of attached disk space (not System partition), which I used to add as a BasicDisk Storage Unit in Netbackup. Sharepoint environment: Sharepoint 2010 3 server farm, all Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit one SQL server, one Front End server, one App server General questions. Per the Policy recommendations on Page 58 of the Guide, If I only care about item level restores from the GRT backup, can I run only "Policy C": or is said Policy dependent on information in the other Policies? For any of the policies listed, do I only included the Front End server in the Clients list, or do I include SQL and App server as well?

let alone having to back one up, but just to give you some response before your post gets lost without reply! Looking at the Admin Guide, the way I read it is that the use of all the above policies (A-1/A-2, B & C) would be to *fully protect* your Sharepoint environment - databases & server - with C solely being used to allow GRT of individual items. I can neither see nor envisage a situation where one policy would be dependent upon another as, in *general terms*, policies are separate entities & bear no relation to each other. .... but, as I've said, I have no experience in Sharepoint & backups thereof so could be totally incorrect - although at least this post may now prompt others to respond! I'm still having problems getting the backups to work Have you any specifics for these problems?

well there have been many. Most of which I've resolved one step at a time. But I wanted to start with making sure I understand and was doing things correctly before getting into those. As of yesterday I was getting a Status 13 whenever I tried to do a Full of Policy "A-1". I foundhttp://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH140635 but it wasn't applicable. I was also getting a Status 129 when for Policy C (GRT backup). I was pretty much out of ideas, then I finally found http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH157854. So I updated from 7.1 to 7.1.0.4 which seems to have fixed those problems. So now, I'm working on testing item level backups using GRT (Policy C). As you said, I assume that Policy C can be used stand alone if I only want the ability to restore individual items. But I want full protection, I'm still not clear whether I need to add all of the Sharepoint servers in the Farm to Policy B.

'Policy B' looks like any "normal" server-type backup - altho' I don't know why they've stipulated both Shadow Copy Components and ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES as the latter includes the former - so personally I'd be looking at any 'physical' server that needs the underlying OS etc backing up (exc. the d/b files which are covered by A & C). So, as I see it A - to backup the Sharepoint d/b info B - to backup the server OS etc (i.e. everything but the d/b info) C - for GRT ( I presume info here would also be covered in "A" but not granularly) As I said earlier, I've no experience in this whatsoever & the above is just my interpretation of the manual. I could very easily be totally wrong & was rather hoping that someone else might've chipped in by now!

So, my backups seem to be running successfully. But I'm testing the restore of a document and it's failing with a status 2804. Using http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO51767 (which didn't have any specific info really about a solution), I'm running the restore from the client Front End server. Attached are the bprd and bpbrm logs from the master server and the bpbrm log from the media server. And a picture of the Restore console, in case anyone sees something I did wrong. Any help is appreciated.

hi all , Iam the same confuse about why we didnt add the other servers in the farm.i configured every thing but when iam trying to do manual bakup as atest i get status error 2.when iam tryinf to enter to front end server from the explorer i get this pic.

Implementing Netbackup backups for Sharepoint 2010 environment

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Will_Restore
Level 6
13 years ago
I simply chose a network share on the Master server to which to restore the file.

OK, I presume you are 'Redirecting individual SharePoint items to a file path' as described in the Admin Guide

But your Master Server is not a Sharepoint host is it?
smckelvey
Level 5
13 years ago
Can you expound on BEDS? I'm not familiar with it.

Sharepoint is SP1, and as I said Netbackup is now at 7.1.0.4.
smckelvey
Level 5
13 years ago
Correct, to a file path, as shown in the attached picture. It happens to be the Master Server which is not a Sharepoint host. I see no indication that I need to restore a single document from GRT to a Sharepoint host. Is that the case?
V4
Level 6
13 years ago
BEDS stands for Backup Exec Data Store . Here SharePoint logs for NBU are saved).

Most IMP thing . for redirected restoration . Ensure below file exists

Create No.Restrictions Touch (empty) File on Media Server under /veritas/netbackup/db/altnames

If altnames directory does not exist, create it

Make sure Touch file does not have suffix of .txt it should be No.Restrictions only

To rename extension of file, from windows explorer navigate to Folder Option (Alt+T+O)

Folder options=> View => Uncheck Hide Extensions for known file types => Apply => Ok

Make sure you revoke above change after file is created.
smckelvey
Level 5
13 years ago
Instead of using a UNC path for a network share, I decided to try simply "C:\" and "temp" in the "Restore to path" blanks in the "Microsoft Sharepoint" tab of the restore window. Interestingly enough, it restored to the SQL server, not the Front End server, which is specified in the Policy. So, that should suffice, so I'll consider this item resolved.
smckelvey
Level 5
13 years ago
per Table 4-6 (see picture in first post), for Policy A-1, I should Exclude the Index files from the Daily Incremental backups.

I shows "Microsoft SharePoint Resources:\Web Application name\Index-DB*". Is there any reason I can do "Microsoft SharePoint Resources:\*\Index-DB*", which would include all Web Applications, w/o having to add each Web Application separately?

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