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Administration Backup & Recovery Selective Restore Manager for SharePoint Backups by Metalogix
 

Selective Restore Manager for SharePoint Backups by Metalogix Hot

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Developer Metalogix
Supports MOSS 2007 • WSS v3 • SPS 2003 • WSS v2
Works with SQL/OLEDB/Web Services
Licensing Per Server
Free Trial Yes
Website http://www.metalogix.net

Selective Restore Manager for SharePoint Backups lets you restore individual documents and list items from your native SharePoint backups, without requiring a SharePoint recovery farm. It lets you connect directly to your native SQL Server backup files, and navigate them as though they were live SharePoint sites. Documents, list items and even entire SharePoint sites can be recovered directly to the production environment, or to any new SharePoint server, using a familiar, copy-and-paste style user-interface. Related metadata, versions, views and permissions are preserved.

Key Features

  • Easy to use
    Similar to the Windows File Explorer, Selective Restore Manager has a familiar, tree-based, copy-and-paste style user interface. Perform granular restore operations easily, within minutes.
  • Restore Individual items and complete site hierarchies
    Everything from an individual document or list item, up to and including complete SharePoint site collections, may be restored from a backup file in one easy step.
  • Restore all types of lists, libraries and sites
    Document Libraries, Picture Libraries, Issues, Tasks, Contacts, Announcements, Discussions, Calendars, Surveys and Custom Lists may all be restored from existing back-up files. Selective Restore Manager also supports the recovery of all site types including team sites, meeting sites, document workspaces, publishing sites, wikis, and blogs.
  • Restore in place or out of place
    Restore documents and items directly to the original production environment, or to a new location within any live SharePoint server on your network. Sites can be re-parented, or re-templated in the process.
  • Retain valuable metadata
    All views, version chains, metadata, permissions, and authorship information ('Created', 'Modified', 'Created By', and 'Modified By' fields) are preserved when performing recovery operations.
  • Connect directly to native SQL back-up files
    Selective Restore Manager works seamlessly with your native SharePoint SQL Server back-up files. There is no need to use a proprietary back-up format, or rely on expensive 3rd party backup solutions, in order to achieve granular restore functionality for your organization.
  • Respond faster to restore requests
    Selective Restore Manager allows you to easily open and browse your existing SQL Server back-up files as though they were live SharePoint sites. Any item, document, or SharePoint site may be restored directly to the production environment, without requiring a temporary SharePoint recovery farm.
  • Preview content prior to restore
    Selective Restore Manager allows you to preview documents and save them to your local disk directly from your SharePoint backups.
  • Run a differential report on your back-up files
    Speed up the process of reviewing backed-up data, with Selective Restore Manager's powerful differential reporting capabilities. Users can easily compare content between two backup files, or between a backup file and the live SharePoint site, to instantly see what has been added, modified or deleted.
  • Compliant
    All restore operations are done through the supported SharePoint API’s. There are no un-supported, direct writes to any SharePoint database.
  • Simple deployment
    Selective Restore Manager takes only minutes to install and requires only the DotNet Framework (Version 2.0), and access to a SQL Server instance. No dedicated server is required - Selective Restore Manager can be installed on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 (32bit or 64bit editions).

 

Expert review

Must have product in your admin toolbox

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
I had a hard time finding negatives with this product. It did everything that I needed it to do, and it plugged a big hole for me when needing to restore documents quickly. If you run a critical SharePoint shop, then this product can help keep your mind at ease when you will inevitably need to restore lost or deleted data. I highly recommend this product, and you should at the very least download the trial to see how it can help you.

Product Reviews

Pros • Very lightweight requiring only about 5MB of hard drive space and 256MB of RAM
• Can be installed on remote client machines rather than on the server
• Very low impact on server resources
• Can read/write from any machine on the domain connected to the farm
• Can restore individual SharePoint items and documents to the local machine
• Compare backup copies of the site to the live production site
• Copy data on the fly from backup to live site or live site to live site
• Saves your current session when you exit the application, so no need to reconnect to databases or sites
• Compatible in x64 environments

New Features

• Added the ability to connect directly to offline mdf database files
• Added the ability to search live sites and backups for specific SharePoint content
• Added the ability to sort the items view and search results screens
• Added ability to preserve content types on lists during restore or copy processes
• Can now migrate and restore permissions, including item level permissions and groups
• Can now view historical versions of documents when versioning has been turned on
• Can now restore an item directly from the log viewer when comparing data
• Bundled help topics
Cons • Cannot open multiple .bak files at the same time if they represent separate databases. You must do them individually.
• Relies on native SharePoint and/or SQL Server backups
Version Reviewed 4.0.67
Reviewed By Mike Ferrara
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Reviewed by Mike Ferrara
September 29, 2009
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Huge time saver

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful
Metalogix once again hits a home run with their SRM product. Like all their tools, SRM is so simple to use, and yet so very powerful. MetaLogix SRM is small, fast to install, simple to license, and easy to use. No huge manual written overseas. MetaLogix has TERRIFIC tech support, too. Great people and great products that save me time. Thank you for another great product, MetaLogix!

Product Reviews

Pros Very easy to use. Browse to the SQL file backups directory, locate your SQL .BAK file, browse through until you find the item you're looking for, and restore the file. Takes about 1 minute to learn, and saves you HOURS of time doing restores.
Cons Haven't come across any cons yet - the product just works time and time again.
Version Reviewed Various version with MOSS 2007
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Reviewed by David Leveille
June 09, 2010
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