DPM 2007 SP1 -- What's new for protecting SharePoint

Posted By: Jason Buffington | Nov 24th, 2008 @ 12:01 AM | 24,102 Views | 2 Comments

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This segment continues our series on "What is new in Service Pack 1" for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007.

In this installment, we look at the new SP1 features for enhancing protection of SharePoint 2003/2007 and WSS 2.0/3.0.

We are still tracking for a December release of SP1, so keep looking for more videos on SP1 -- and please tell us what feature you'd like us to cover next !

Tags: DPM, Sharepoint, System Center

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cccsec

Watch this if you want to see some security theater:

It appears that dude backs up SOMETHING, but it doesn't show anything about RECOVERING data. This could have been a chance to demonstrate some technology that people would actually need to trust before being suppressed by the ridiculous DPM licensing model.

I do not believe for a second that Sharepoint would still run if he restored those databases. In fact, I will ignore any DPM marketing chatter until I see a demo with a real recovery of that stuff followed by a demo that the recovered data worked without a flaw.

Lawrence

In reply to cccsec

#Jan 17th @ 5:30 AM

No worry man, we have done a sizable implementation of DPM to backup SharePoint farm of a listed customer, and DPM passes a series of comprehehsive recovery tests without flaw. Though we didn't have a demo to share, but it's pretty straight forward to try out by yourself... except you need a recovery SharePoint farm when doing indivudual item recovery, luckily that can be a VM. And that requirement will be gone in next version of DPM regarding MS roadmap.

In general, out customer is still quite satisfied with DPM and we received no fault complain until now, after 15 month of that SharePoint backup solution deployment.