Backup / restore of Microsoft SharePoint Server (DS-Recovery Tools)
Creation Date: January 18, 2008
Revision Date: October 11, 2018
Product: DS‑Client (Windows) with DS-MLR Service (DS-Recovery Tools)
Summary
This article contains additional information for backup and restore of Microsoft SharePoint Server using the DS-Recovery Tools. It also describes how to configure a DS-Recovery Tools installation to log events for a backup activity.
Logging DS-Recovery Tools for SharePoint activities (troubleshooting)
There are two configuration files in the DS-Recovery Tools installation directory:
• dsrcvtools.cfg — The main configuration file, containing the path to the log configuration file and sharepoint.dll.
• logconf.cfg — The configuration for logging. By default, debug logging is disabled. There are some examples inside the file “logconf.cfg”.
Sample “dsrcvtools.cfg” file:
DS-Recovery Tools Ports : 4408
Log Configuration : C:\Program Files\CloudBackup\DS-Recovery Tools\logconf.cfg
BackupLibs : share_point
share_point : C:\Program Files\CloudBackup\DS-Recovery Tools\SharePoint.dll
Sample “logconf.cfg” file:
“C:\Program Files\CloudBackup\DS-Recovery Tools\evlog.txt” {
filter {
severity = debug;
}
}
NOTE: This sample “logconf.cfg” will dump all the debug information from the DS-Recovery Tools service to the “evlog.txt” file.
If you configure the DS-Recovery Tools service to dump a “debug” log, this will create a very large text file. Note there will be a significant performance impact if you do this. This feature is available for troubleshooting purposes to assist your service provider’s Technical Support Team.
Restore considerations
The following considerations should be made for Item-Level backup and restore using the Microsoft SharePoint Server backup type using the DS-Recovery Tools installation on the target Microsoft SharePoint Server:
• Web applications — Backup of a SharePoint web application will back up all its sites. On Item-Level Restore, users can restore each site separately. Users cannot restore any sub-site, lists or list items in the site separately.
• Sites — Backup of a SharePoint site will back up the whole site. On Item-Level Restore, users can only restore the whole site. Users cannot restore any sub-site, lists or list items in the site separately.
• Sub-sites — Backup of a SharePoint sub-site will back up the whole sub-site. On Item-Level restore, users can only restore the whole sub-site. Users cannot restore any lists or list items in the site separately.
• Lists — Backup of a SharePoint list will back up the whole list. On Item-Level Restore, users can only restore the whole list. Users cannot restore specific list item(s) in the list separately.