DocAve Backup and Recovery for SharePoint
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DocAve Backup and Recovery for SharePoint provides full fidelity backup and recovery, from an individual content item to an entire SharePoint environment and all of its farm-level components, maintaining all metadata, securities, and version histories. Intelligent, Enterprise-Strength Backup and Recovery
- Automatic classification of SharePoint content according to business importance and usage activity via the Business Criticality Matrix. More critical content is automatically associated with more aggressive backup schedules.
- Template Builder for defining reusable, color-coded backup schedules for maintaining consistent coverage across your entire SharePoint environment
- Centralized browser-based interface (integrated with Active Directory) with full administrative interface auditing supports and integrates ALL your SharePoint environments.
- SharePoint centric user interface delivers “point & click” tree-mode simplicity to backup and recovery
- Full, incremental, and differential backup capabilities for selective farm components enable customers to build backup plans and schedules that focus on frequent backup of high priority data, improving backup operations and storage efficiency
- Backup to centrally managed tiered storage location with built-in encryption, compression, and pruning policies
- Load balancing across all front-end web servers for efficient resource utilization
Password protection for safeguarding backup data - Manage email notification rules via email notification manager
- Monitor real-time progress of any backup or recovery processes
- Centralized setup and configuration, software patch and license management, and user account management
- SQL Mirroring provides true redundancy with optional High Availability module
Granular Content and Data Protection
- Supports independent or mixed SharePoint environments, including Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, Windows SharePoint Services v2 and v3, and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (Support for SharePoint 2001 is available – please contact sales).
- Full fidelity backup and restore of all lists, libraries and items, including Events, Links, Tasks, Contacts, Announcements, Discussion Boards, Surveys, Issues, Custom Lists, Areas, Sub Areas, Portal Links, Workflow Definitions, Layout Templates, Site Definitions, along with access permissions, metadata and version histories
- Backs up and restores SharePoint workflow definitions
- Full-fidelity item-level restore with full text keyword and identification criteria mask search.
- Granular, item-level restore with sliding timeline view, along with full text keyword search and identification criteria mask search
- Restore content to separate locations or SharePoint instances, file systems or networked file-shares with out-of-place restore
- Manual and automated Data Pruning feature helps manage historic backup data and improve access speed to more recent backups.
- Data Coalescing feature allows collapsing incremental backups into one backup data set for easy retrieval.
- Item-level out-of-place restore for complete hardware failure
- Fast, 60GB per hour back up speeds
Comprehensive Platform Protection
- Backup and recover entire SharePoint farms or selective components including all servers and back-end SQL databases with all configurations, Index/Job servers, as well as front-end IIS settings and file system resources.
- Quickly and selectively restore individual or a combination of farm components (content databases, web applications, SSP, etc.)
Safeguard front-end web server resources ((IIS settings, Template files, user selected resources, local file systems, etc.) - Backup InfoPath form templates, Project Server content and Site Definitions
- Support for SharePoint Features
- Up-to-the-minute restore using SQL logs restoration
Leverages Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to ensure consistent point-in-time backups - Fast backup speeds of up to 175 GB/Hour
- Efficient streaming of data via open standards including VDI and VSS without staging location requirements
User reviews
Average user rating from: 4 user(s)
Good functionality, bad support
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
I'd recommend the product, just be prepared to pull your hair out when something goes wrong.
Product Reviews
| Pros | Very powerful tool providing a key function in copying sites across different environments. Very quick to restore. |
| Cons | Support is not very good. We've have a number of issues that could not be explained by the tech. Avepoint's support is quick to say "run it again until you see the issue again, then you will know what cause the issue when it stops" so apparently logging isn't very good. |
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Powerful solution..
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful
I thought the options to backup everything was great. Relatively fast in its backup process. I just found that setup and install took a bit longer than other solutions providing similar benefits.
Still a better option than the out of the box backup/recovery options. I would recommend looking at other solutions as you may save some money to purchase other tools while still getting a great backup/recovery solution elsewhere.
Product Reviews
| Pros | Full featured. Backs up everything. Good support from AvePoint. |
| Cons | Too confusing. Take a bit more that others to setup and get running. Expensive. |
| Version Reviewed | 5.2 |
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Very Robust, Comprehensive Solution
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
I used this for a few years in a previous position. We initially implemented the 3.x version when we started to have problems with our backups when the content databases exceeded 40Gb. They system was easy to implement, and I was up and running within an hour or two.
This was one of the first to offer Item Level backup capabilities. I really like the options offered for granularity, frequency, etc.
This product served me very well. We continued our upgrades through the 4.x and into the current version. We later added additional modules like the archiving and disaster recovery that are now part of the base product.
Product Reviews
| Pros | Full featured, reliable |
| Cons | Not cheap |
| Version Reviewed | 4.x |
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Only if you have too much time on your hands
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12 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Our company purchased Docave SharePoint Backup after visiting NY user group and someone recommended their tool over Quest, but i've been somewhat disappointed, especially in the beginning. It provides good functionality in line of itemlevel restoration, but so do many other tools these days. And some of the functionality Docave backup offers we will just never be using. Since it’s not cheap this is something to consider if you are thinking about buying Docave backup – you may be overpaying for features you don’t need.
Now the backup schedules seem to be running and worked fine when we tested the recovery in staging. So far we had no restoration requests in production environment, and I hope we will not. However, it was very hard to get off the ground – their user guide is around 500 pages, seriously. I bought 2-server Backup agent, and I got a 500 page user guide for ALL their modules. Since Avepoint has a very weak knowledgebase, you may want to request user guide for backup only, to save yourself some trouble. One more note worth mentioning - we wanted to upgrade to version 5, but when we called Avepoint support they suggested to wait. Said “the build is not stable and no upgrade tool available”. And that was one month post release! Next year, when our maintenance expires, we will be testing out Quest tools and DPM, but I don’t know if they are any better. I guess we’ll find out…
Product Reviews
| Pros | integration with other Avepoint products (but not included in the backup product price – we only tested during the trial, but didn’t buy those)
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| Cons | too complex, difficult to get started, horrendously large user guide, expensive
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| Version Reviewed | 4.5 |
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