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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft SharePoint Server Administrator's Guide
  3. Protecting SharePoint Server data with VMware backups
  4. About configuring a VMware backup that protects SharePoint Server
Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft SharePoint Server Administrator's Guide

About configuring a VMware backup that protects SharePoint Server

To successfully perform VMware backups and restores of SharePoint Server, complete the following steps.

Table: Configuring a VMware backup that protects SharePoint Server

Step

Action

Description

Step 1

Configure your VMware environment and NetBackup.

See the NetBackup for VMware Administrator's Guide.

Install the NetBackup client software on the virtual machines that are part of a SharePoint farm.

Step 2

Install the Veritas VSS provider.

See Installing the Veritas VSS provider for vSphere.

Step 3

Configure the NetBackup Client Service.

See Configuring the logon account for the NetBackup Client Service for NetBackup for SharePoint .

Step 4

Configure the NetBackup Legacy Network Service.

See Configuring the logon account for the NetBackup Legacy Network Service for NetBackup for SharePoint.

Step 5

Configure the local security privileges.

See Configuring local security privileges for the SharePoint Servers.

Step 6

On the NetBackup server, configure the mappings for distributed application restores.

Map the application hosts and component hosts in your environment. Configure these mappings in the Distributed Application Restore Mapping host property on the master server.

See Configuring mappings for restores of a distributed application, cluster, or virtual machine .

Step 7

On the NetBackup server, review the auto-discovered mappings for the hosts in your environment.

In certain scenarios, a NetBackup host has additional host names or shares a particular name with other hosts. Approve each valid Auto-Discovered Mapping that NetBackup discovers in your environment. Perform this configuration in the Host Management properties on the master server.

See Reviewing the auto-discovered mappings in Host Management.

Step 8

Review the requirements granular restores.

See Requirements for SharePoint Granular Recovery .

See Configuring a SharePoint backup that uses Granular Recovery Technology (GRT).

Step 9

For Federated SharePoint configurations, configure the granular proxy on the master server.

See Configuring the granular proxy host for Federated SharePoint configurations with VMware.

Step 10

Configure the host properties for each SharePoint client.

See Configuring SharePoint client host properties.

Step 11

Create a VMware backup policy.

See Configuring a VMware backup policy to protect SharePoint Server .

Step 12

Test your configuration settings.

See Performing a manual backup.

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