Using Disaster Recovery With The Windows Sharepoint Services - HP BB118BV - StorageWorks Data Protector Express Package User Manual

Using Disaster Recovery with the Windows SharePoint Services

There are two ways to recover a SharePoint Services installation after a system disaster.
1. If you have a successful full backup of the system with VSS enabled, the disaster recovery process
will restore the entire system including the SharePoint Services. Your SharePoint sites should be
functional after the DR process is complete. It is recommended that you enable VSS for your DR
backup set to take advantage of this feature.
2. If a full backup of the system was performed with the VSS option disabled, the WSS database is not
restored, since the files were open at backup. You will need to take further steps to complete the WSS
recovery. Complete the following operations after the initial DR process has completed successfully.
a. Re-install the Windows SharePoint Services component on your system. This will rebuild the
b. Open Data Protector Express and create a restore job to restore the WSS database.
"master" WMSDE/SSEE database. The "master" database is required to restore the SharePoint
databases including configuration and content databases. Note that you may have to uninstall and
reinstall SharePoint services to restore the SharePoint installation.