The Research And Implementation Of Data Migration, Archiving And Restore Based On MOSS 2007

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a single, integrated location where employees can efficiently collaborate with team members, find organizational resources, and search for experts and corporate information. You can quickly create SharePoint sites that support specific content publishing, content management, records management, or business intelligence needs. Your organization can use Office SharePoint Server 2007 to facilitate collaboration, provide content management features, implement business processes, and supply access to information that is essential to organizational goals and processes. The security of data stored in SharePoint becomes more important, while SharePoint is widly used. DocAve Software Platform is built on this situation.AvePoint proudly serves over 2000 customers across six continents. They include legal, financial, production, cosmetic, manufacturing, health, government and defense, and research/academic entities. Many are Fortune 500 companies.As a gold partner of Microsoft Company, AvePoint has DocAve Software Platform, which provides six special functions for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Exchange Sever:1. Backup and Restore;2. Migration;3. Archive;4. Disaster Recovery;5. Replication;6. Administration.The major task of this paper is to design and implement the"Migration"and"Archive", which are two special functions of DocAve4.1.x Software Platform we mentioned above. There are three goals of the system below:a) Distributed Structure. The system composes of Sever, Media Sever and Agent. Sever prevides GUI part communicating with users. Agent executes the programs that operate (eg. backup) data in SharePoint. Media Sever stores the Archived data.b) Data Migration. The system transfers data in Microsoft Exchange Server Public Folder to Microsoft Office SharePoint, including data abstraction module, data consistent checking module, data format changing module, data storage changing module, and data transmission.c) Data Archive and Restore. Data in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is Archived by the system according to the selection of users, who can choose"on certain time"or"real time", document or version and so on. The users can also specify the Media Sever that stores Archived data. On the other hand, the system can recovery the Archived data from Media Sever to original sites in SharePoint.This system provides data migration from Exchange Server Public Folder to Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and data backup and restore for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, ensuring security with fulfilling various of requirements for customers. The leading function of this system is migration, archive, backup and restore, including sites, subsites, items and so on.Based on B/S three- layer stucture, DocAve Software Platform is made up of SQL database, SharePoint service or Exchange Sever service, and control panel used by customers. Three- layer stucture is a classical stucture that current popular softwares use this stucture in regularity. It achieves thin customer-sever, with uniform interface for customers. With this structure, we improve stability and maintainability for the system.Based on collecting a great deal data and information in requirement analysis, this paper analyzes the system structure, function module and key technique in detail. This paper also introduces dependability and superiority of DocAve Software Platform in Backup and Restore for SharePoint. At the same time, DocAve Software Platform consummates every function by using customers'feedback.DocAve Software Platform is so dominant that it has been recommendsed by Microsoft for Backup and Restore Solution of SharePoint. DocAve Software Platform is also OEM of IBM, Netapp and HP. Presently, there are more than 200 companies are Fortune 500 companies which choose DocAve Software Platform for Backup and Restore Solution of SharePoint.