DocAve Backup and Recovery for SharePoint provides full fidelity backup and recovery, from an individual content item to an entire SharePoint environment and all of its farm-level components, maintaining all metadata, securities, and version histories.

Intelligent, Enterprise-Strength Backup and Recovery

• Automatic classification of SharePoint content according to business importance and usage activity via the Business Criticality Matrix. More critical content is automatically associated with more aggressive backup schedules.
• Template Builder for defining reusable, color-coded backup schedules for maintaining consistent coverage across your entire SharePoint environment
• Centralized browser-based interface (integrated with Active Directory) with full administrative interface auditing supports and integrates ALL your SharePoint environments.
• SharePoint centric user interface delivers “point & click” tree-mode simplicity to backup and recovery
• Full, incremental, and differential backup capabilities for selective farm components enable customers to build backup plans and schedules that focus on frequent backup of high priority data, improving backup operations and storage efficiency
• Backup to centrally managed tiered storage location with built-in encryption, compression, and pruning policies
• Load balancing across all front-end web servers for efficient resource utilization
  Password protection for safeguarding backup data
• Manage email notification rules via email notification manager
• Monitor real-time progress of any backup or recovery processes
• Centralized setup and configuration, software patch and license management, and user account management
• SQL Mirroring provides true redundancy with optional High Availability module

Granular Content and Data Protection

• Supports independent or mixed SharePoint environments, including Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, Windows SharePoint Services v2 and v3, and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (Support for SharePoint 2001 is available – please contact sales).
• Full fidelity backup and restore of all lists, libraries and items, including Events, Links, Tasks, Contacts, Announcements, Discussion Boards, Surveys, Issues, Custom Lists, Areas, Sub Areas, Portal Links, Workflow Definitions, Layout Templates, Site Definitions, along with access permissions, metadata and version histories
• Backs up and restores SharePoint workflow definitions
• Full-fidelity item-level restore with full text keyword and identification criteria mask search.
• Granular, item-level restore with sliding timeline view, along with full text keyword search and identification criteria mask search
• Restore content to separate locations or SharePoint instances, file systems or networked file-shares with out-of-place restore
• Manual and automated Data Pruning feature helps manage historic backup data and improve access speed to more recent backups.
• Data Coalescing feature allows collapsing incremental backups into one backup data set for easy retrieval.
• Item-level out-of-place restore for complete hardware failure
• Fast, 60GB per hour back up speeds

Comprehensive Platform Protection

• Backup and recover entire SharePoint farms or selective components including all servers and back-end SQL databases with all configurations, Index/Job servers, as well as front-end IIS settings and file system resources.
• Quickly and selectively restore individual or a combination of farm components (content databases, web applications, SSP, etc.)
  Safeguard front-end web server resources ((IIS settings, Template files, user selected resources, local file systems, etc.)
• Backup InfoPath form templates, Project Server content and Site Definitions
• Support for SharePoint Features
• Up-to-the-minute restore using SQL logs restoration
  Leverages Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to ensure consistent point-in-time backups
• Fast backup speeds of up to 175 GB/Hour
• Efficient streaming of data via open standards including VDI and VSS without staging location requirements