Will the Backup Exec SharePoint agent support Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Services (MOSS) 2007? These are the new versions scheduled to come out any day now.
Sharepoint 2007 will not be supported by BE11d. We are actively working on updating our agent to support Sharepoint 2007 as close as possible to its release date. However, BE11d has a new feature for Sharepoint 2003 users called GRT : Granular Recovery Technoloy which will allow a document level restore from a fuil database backup
I was told by a member of Symantec's technical support team that 11D would support SharePoint Services 3.0. You post seems to be supporting the same concept. However, all of the documentation on 11D thus far mentions SharePoint Portal Server and NOT SharePoint Services. Have you seen any documentation by Symantec that states they will support SharePoint Services 3.0?
Matt, There may have been a minor misunderstanding; 11d supports Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows Sharepoint Services 2.0. When Backup Exec supports Sharepoint Portal Server 2007, it will also support Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0. Sorry for the confusion.
Great, good to know. I do have Sharepoint Services 2.0 running right now. I may not make the upgrade then. Is there any documentation that discusses the backups of WSS 2.0 (i.e. - Does it back up at the site level, file level, etc)?
Office 2007, including Office SharePoint Server 2007, RTM'd Nov. 6. The official business rollout is Nov. 30, although the binaries are expected to be widely available for download before then, maybe in the next week. Can you narrow down when the updated agent for SharePoint 2007 will be available? Will it be a free upgrade for those of us who just purchased the old SharePoint agent?
OK let me clarify all of this as it cn get pretty complicated:
If you want to protect SharePoint Portal Server you need the Agent for SharePoint Portal Server If you want granular recovery of SharePoint Portal Server or Windows SharePoint Services you need to purchase the Backup Exec Agent for SharePoint Portal Server. If you only want to protect Windows SharePoint Services, without GRT, then you can simply backup up the server on which the services are running; the downside: you have to recover the whole database, you get no granularity
