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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section V. Configuring backups
  4. Creating backup policies
  5. Policy Attributes tab
  6. Enable granular recovery (policy attribute)
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Enable granular recovery (policy attribute)

The Enable granular recovery attribute is available for the following policy types:

  • MS-Exchange-Server

  • MS-SharePoint

  • MS-Windows (for Active Directory)

With this option enabled, users can restore the individual objects that reside within a database backup image, such as:

  • A user account from an Active Directory database backup

  • Email messages or folders from an Exchange database backup

  • A document from a SharePoint database backup

NetBackup does not support the compression or encryption of backups that use Granular Recovery Technology (GRT). When the Enable granular recovery option is enabled, the Compression option and the Encryption option are automatically disabled.

Granular-level restores can be performed only if the backup was written to a disk storage unit.

For more information on how to configure NetBackup to perform granular-level backups, see the following:

  • NetBackup for SharePoint Server Administrator's Guide

  • NetBackup for Exchange Server Administrator's Guide

  • See Active Directory granular backups and recovery.

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