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SharePoint 2013 Backup and Recovery with DPM 2012Chris Whitehead & Sam HassaniPremier Field Engineering

SPC208

Who are we?Chris Whitehead

• Premier Field Engineer

• Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) SharePoint 2010

• PFE EMEA SharePoint Tech Lead

Sam Hassani

• Premier Field Engineer

• Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) SharePoint 2010

• SharePoint Beta Support

[email protected]@mrwhitey

[email protected]@samhassa

Blog: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/fromthefield

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/fromthefield

SharePoint native backup/restore recap

SharePoint native backup/restore capabilities

• Configuration settings• Service Applications• Unattached content database recovery• SQL Snapshot support

SharePoint native backup/restore limitations

• In-line item level recovery• Configuration and Central Admin database restore

What does DPM give us?

DPM capabilities

• In-line item level recovery• Configuration and Central Admin database restore• Less storage required for backups• Backup to the cloud• Role based backup and recovery management and administration• Protection of other Microsoft products e.g. Hyper-V

DPM limitations

• Service Applications

DPM 2012

Online Snapshots

Disk-Based Recovery

Active Directory

Tape-Based Backup

Data Protection Manager

Up to Every 15 minutes

Disaster Recoverywith offsite replication and tape

Data Protection Manager

DPM scalability

100 DPM servers or 50,000 data sources centrally managed

Then, per DPM server…

2000 SQL Server databases

100 production servers and 3000 Windows client machines

80TB Exchange data

25TB SharePoint data

Protecting SharePoint data

Configuration

Create and configure a protection group

Configure the WSS Writer service with ConfigureSharePoint.exe

Install the DPM agent

ConfigureSharePoint.exe

One tick ‘farm’ protectionSQL Server 1

E:\ +ContentDB1.mdf +ContentDB1.ldf

F:\

+ContentDB2.mdf +ContentDB2.ldf

G:\ +ConfigDB.mdf +ConfigDB.ldf

SQL Server 2

D:\ +ContentDB3.mdf +ContentDB3.ldf


Backup: data flow

SharePoint server Database servers

DPM server

VSS Writers

Demo: Protecting SharePoint dataChris Whitehead, Sam Hassani

Under the hood…

Before backup

DPM Filter – Volume Map

SQL Server 1


F:\



SQL Server 1


F:\



Start of synchronization window

Volume (actual disk blocks)

Time = 10:00


1st change

1 2 3 4


Time = 10:01


File Write Changed Blocks Noted

2nd change

7

1 2 3 4

5

6

8 9


Time = 10:06



3rd change

11 7

1 2 3 4

12

5

6

15

8 9

10 13 14


Time = 10:18



Synchronization starts (express full backup)

11 7

1 2 3 4

12

5

6

15

8 9

10 13 14


Time = 10:30


Synchronization VSS Snapshot Taken

11 7

1 2 3 4

12

5

6

15

8 9

10 13 14

Synchronization starts (express full backup)

11 7

1 2 3 4

12

5

6

15

8 9

10 13 14


Time = 10:30:01


Synchronization Changed Blocks Sent to DPM

4th change

11 7

1 2 3 4

19 12

5 16 17 18

6

15

8 9

10 13 20 14


Time = 10:30:02


Synchronization File I/O ContinuesFile Write

Synchronization ends

11 7

1 2 3 4

19 12

5 16 17 18

6

15

8 9

10 13 20 14


Time = 10:30:03


VSS Snapshot ReleasedVolume Map ResetFile Write

19

16 17 18

20

Efficient disk storage without duplication

A B C D E F G

Production Data

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DPM Replica

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Original Data (10:00)

Time = 10:00

Efficient disk storage without duplicationTime = 10:15 – Data changes

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Production Data

H A B C D E F G

DPM Replica

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Original Data (10:00)

Efficient disk storage without duplicationTime = 10:30 – Data is protected

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Production Data

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DPM Replica

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Original Data (10:00)1st Express Full Backup (10:30)


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Efficient disk storage without duplicationTo recover to: 11:00

Production Data

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DPM Replica

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M N O P QK B I D E J L H 8 Blocks Restored



Efficient disk storage without duplicationTo recover to: 10:00


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Recovering SharePoint data

Recovery: data flow (databases)


DPM server

Recovery: data flow (sites, lists, and items)


DPM server

CMP



DPM server

CMP

1010010 101 1101011 00010101 010010 10100 1010111 100 1010 01001



DPM server

Recovery farm

CMP

Demo: Recovering SharePoint dataChris Whitehead, Sam Hassani

Recovering SharePoint dataRecovery farm needed in some cases

• Recovery farm web application must be named “DPMRecoveryWebApplication”

Full farm restore requires same farm configuration

Caveats of SharePoint export/import

DPM vs. SQL Server backup

SQL Server backups250 GB of SQL Server databases

30 GB

15 GB

12 GB

18 GB

Assume 70% compression during backup

75 GB per backupFor 2 weeks:75 GB x 14d = ~1 TB

100 GB 50 GB 40 GB 60 GB

DPM backups

250 GB DPM replica

For 2 weeks:250 GB + 375 GB = 625 GB

100 GB 50 GB 40 GB 60 GB

375 GB DPM recovery point area

250 GB of SQL Server databases

10 GB

5 GB 4 GB 6 GBAssume 10% data change rate per day

25 GB per day x 13 days

DPM backups

250 GB DPM replica

For 2 weeks:250 GB + 168 GB = 418 GB

100 GB 50 GB 40 GB 60 GB

168 GB DPM recovery point area

250 GB of SQL Server databases

5 GB 2.5 GB

2 GB 3 GBAssume 5% data change rate per day

12.5 GB per day x 13 days

Summary

DPM compliments the out of the box backup and recovery tools, providing simple, fast, and automated backup and recovery.

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dpm filter volume map

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dpm capabilities

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