Restore Documents for the SharePoint Server Agent

You can browse and restore backed up data for your subclient, partial data or the entire data at once.

Restore Objectives

Your objective for restoring data determines the process you must follow and the restore destination.

Restore Objective

Description

Disaster recovery

Plan your full system recovery in advance.

Recover data from long-term storage

If you back up your data to tape for long-term storage, you must identify the corresponding media, and make sure that it is available for the recovery operation.

Restore data from a specified time range

If you need to restore data during a range of time (for example, data that was deleted accidentally), you can browse and restore data based on a time range that you specify. Typically, this data would be restored to an out-of-place destination.

Restore to a point in time

If your document becomes corrupted or otherwise invalid, you can restore the document to a point in time before the document became unusable. Typically, this data would be restored to an in-place destination.

Restore Methods

You can restore backed-up data by using the following methods:

  • CommCell Console

    You can perform the browse and restore operation from the CommCell Console.

  • Command Line

    The Command Line Interface provides a way to restore data from the command line, as an alternative to the CommCell Console, where various restore options can be specified either as parameters on the command line or in a separate arguments file. For more information, see Command Line documentation.

Factors in Choosing the Appropriate Restore Methods and Options

Consider the following factors when planning your restore strategy.

Scope

To what degree does data need to be restored?

Time

Do you need to restore data from the latest available backup data or from a previous point in time?

Restore Chains

When you select a restore time, the software determines the optimal combination of full backup, differential backup, and log backups necessary to bring the restored documents back to the selected time. This combination of backups is called the restore chain.

  • For basic document restores, the restore chain consists of the most recent full backup, the latest differential backup (if any), and all the subsequent log backups (if any) taken prior to the selected restore time.

  • While restoring documents to a transaction mark or during a point-in-time restore, the restore chain consists of the most recent full backup, the latest differential backup (if any), all the subsequent log backups taken prior to the selected browse time, and the next log backup after the transparent browse time. The transparent inclusion enables restores to a selected point in time.

Restore Destinations

The destination where you restore data is determined by your restore objective. Generally, you perform an in-place or an out-of-place restore.

In-place restore

When you restore a document in place, you restore it to the same path on the same client from where the document was backed up.

Out-of-place restore

When you restore a document out of place, you can restore it to a different path on the same client or to a different client from where the document was backed up.

You can perform in-place and out-of-place restores from the command line interface.

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