HP Data Protector best practices for backing up and restoring Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

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Figure 6: Selection of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 search index files for restore
NOTE
To adhere to your Separation of duties security standards, you can separate tasks as follows:
1. The Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007/2010 farm administrator performs the Data Protector
PowerShell command:
SharePoint_VSS_backup.ps1 -createonly - dev null-device
The farm is discovered. The backup specification is created with a null-device (dummy device)
and does not need the Data Protector Save backup specification user right.
The Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007/2010 farm administrator can see backup devices and can
create a backup specification using an existing device.
2. The Data Protector backup administrator modifies the backup specification to use proper devices.
IMPORTANT:
If only one device is used to back up a multi-system farm, the corresponding backup sessions
cannot run in parallel. This prolongs the time during which the farm is in read-only mode.
Specifically, the farm is in read-only mode from the moment when the backup sessions are started
up until all VSS snapshots are created. To enable backup sessions to run in parallel, select different
or additional devices in each backup specification before the backup is started.