Scheduling Backups For Sharepoint - SonicWALL CDP 6.0 Administrator's Manual

Backing Up SharePoint
To backup SharePoint using the Agent User Interface, perform the following steps:
Open the SonicWALL Agent User Interface on the SharePoint server.
Step 1
In the SonicWALL CDP Agent User Interface, click the Policies tab.
Step 2
In the left pane, click Applications.
Step 3
In the right pane, click the Plus button
Step 4
opens.
Type a descriptive name for the application object into the Name field.
Step 5
Select Microsoft SQL Server/SharePoint in the Application drop-down list. The list of
Step 6
available applications is automatically populated through a discovery process. For proper
discovery, the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy service must not be disabled. See
Recovery Troubleshooting" on page 229
Under Application items, select the checkboxes for one or more SharePoint databases to
Step 7
back up. SonicWALL recommends selecting the Select All checkbox to ensure that all
associated files are backed up for SharePoint.
In the Add Application window, click OK to add the application object.
Step 8
The new application object appears in the Policies screen of the Agent User Interface.
Before the backup will occur, you must also configure a schedule for this application object,
Note
and a backup task that includes both the application object and the schedule.

Scheduling Backups for SharePoint

A schedule is required when creating an Application backup task to backup Microsoft
SharePoint. You can use the same schedule object in more than one backup task.
For instructions on creating a schedule object, see the
Backups" section on page
152 SonicWALL CDP 6.0 Administrator's Guide
at the lower right corner. The Add Application window
for more information.
124.
"Creating Schedules for Application
"Backup and