PART 2 - Recovering a SharePoint site

When you restore a site, DPM restores the database to the recovery farm, extracts the site from the recovery farm, and imports it into the target farm. During this process, DPM creates a temporary file on the recovery farm at a location specified in the Recovery Wizard. You should periodically delete the temporary files at that location.

· The target farm must contain a site collection with the same path as the original protected site. If the site collection does not exist, you can create an empty site collection with the correct path on the target farm before you perform the recovery.

In this How to, I started deleting a site Collection with the URL: http://moss2007/sites/Documentos that was already in a recovery point in DPM as you can see in figure 1.

1. Create an empty Site Collection in the Production Farm Server with the same URL of the one that was deleted. (Figure 2)

Figure 2 Creating a empty Site Collection

2. From within the DPM Administrator Console (Figure 3):

· click on the Recovery tab;

· in the Protected data: section, expand out the SharePoint server which contains the farm where the site is located;

· under the server name, click on the All Protected SharePoint Data entry. This will display the Farm name in the lower right-hand pane;

· Expand it, and find the site that you want to recover;

· In the calendar display, select the date and time the Recovery Point was taken which is to be restored;

· Select the site to be recovered under the Recoverable Item field by right-clicking on it. This displays the context sensitive menu with the options to Show all recovery points and Recover…

· Choose the Recover… option which brings up the Review Recovery Selection window. Chose Next to continue.

Figure 3

3. Select to Recover to Original Site (Figure 4), than in the Specify Recovery Farm Wizard (Figure 5) select the Recovery Farm Server (Figure 6) the SQL Instance of the Recovery Farm Server (Figure 7) and a temporary file location (Figure 8) and click next to continue.

Figure 4

Figure 5                                                    Figure 6

Figure 7                                                     Figure 8

4. In the Specify Staging Location give a file location of the production farm Server (Figure 9 and 10) and click next to continue.

Figure 9                                                    Figure 10

5. If you have SAN hardware that has the snapshot functionality enabled to clone and split a clone to make it writable and this SAN is connected to the DPM Server, then you can use this feature by selecting the Enable SAN based recovery using hardware snapshots checkbox in the Specify Recovery Options window. When you have made your selection, click Next to continue.(Figure 11)

Figure 11

6. The Summary window is displayed and it lists in the Recovery items, Details: window all of the SharePoint files you will be recovering. Click the Recover button to start the recovery. (Figure 12)

Figure 12

7. After this only need to wait for the successful of the Recovery (Figure 13)

Figure 13

8. Once the site is restored, you can see that he is again in the production Farm as the point that it was in the recovery point. (Figure 14)

Figure 14 The job is finished and with success