Installation best practices for Data Protector SharePoint Granular Recovery Extension

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Abstract
The purpose of this document is to describe the necessary steps to install Data Protector SharePoint
Granular Recovery Extension and provide help in order to avoid any pitfalls.
This document will not replace the HP Data Protector Granular Recovery Extension User Guide for
Microsoft SharePoint Server; it is an add-on to the provided documentation.
You should consult the user guide before installing Data Protector SharePoint Granular Recovery
Extension.
This document is valid for HP Data Protector 6.11 and HP Data Protector 6.2; differences between the
installation processes of these two versions are described in this whitepaper.
Introduction
The benefits of the HP Data Protector Granular Recovery Extension are the following:
• Recovery granularity:
The smallest object that you can restore with the backup solution is a Microsoft SQL Server
database (content database), which may contain data of multiple web sites. In contrast,
the smallest object that you can recover with HP Data Protector Granular Recovery Extension
is an individual web site item, for example: a Calendar item, a Calendar, a Tasks item, a
Team Discussion item, a document, a shared document, a folder, a list, a library, an
announcement, a form, a reporting template, an object's meta data, and a document
workflow.
• Integration into Microsoft SharePoint Server Central Administration:
Granular Recovery Extension is fully integrated into the Microsoft SharePoint
Server Central Administration. This empowers Site Collection Administrators to
perform recovery of single items independently or with minimal interference of
backup administrators.
• Recovery of multiple sites:
Accidental deletion of a site is no longer an issue, even if you cannot use the
recycle bin to recover your site. Granular Recovery Extension can recover an
entire site with multiple subsites.
• Ease of search:
The Granular Recovery Extension advanced and quick search helps you find the
item you need to recover. This search system checks object's metadata, enabling
you to filter your search by document type, author, date and so on. Objects are
displayed in object tree browser.
• Recovery to different locations:
The Granular Recovery Extension enables recovery to different destinations, for
example you can recover your objects to different sites, different farms, and to
filesystem.