The Item Level Backup Solution Of SharePoint

Nowadays, the employees from the companies are organizing kinds of information and data in different document types. Such as word, excel text file and images. Those kinds of documents are not managed in structure. And the traditional database is not able to manage or storage those kinds of documents properly. How to organize an effective security management of these documents, to communicate across the barriers has become a top priority in this area. There's a big potential market for this area. Microsoft SharePoint is there to resolve this problem: A platform for communication and collaboration, which aims at collaboration and information exchange, and will help enterprises to develop intelligent portal sites. Those sites can seamlessly connect to the users, teams and knowledge. Enable people to make better use of the operational flow of relevant information, to more effectively carry out their work.Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2003 is an enterprise solution which provides powerful content management and search services. It can speed up the shared workflow and make the sharing of crossed information easier. Therefore, help the enterprises to improve work efficiency. It works for all applications via Intranet,Extranet and Web through an integrated platform rather than decentralized systems. SharePoint is becoming the best solution for IT managers and End users for content and process management nowadays.Currently, SharePoint is getting more and more reputation around the customers from all over the world. The increase of customers, growth of various types of application data is making data security a particularly important issue. A company may be able to afford the loss of hardware and software, but no one can afford the loss of data. In order to improve the data security and reduce the potential issues for data security, we have to find out an efficient backup and recovery solution with high availability.In the current case, only Microsoft API provides the backup and recovery for the enterprise sites. It requires the customer to have enough space for data storage, and the administrator has to be knowledgeable for SharePoint. Which makes it the pain point since SharePoint API is to complicated and low efficiency. For instance, if the customer prefer to backup part of site instead of the whole site, it's impossible to make it. In this case, to provide an efficient solution which will protect the data security is necessary. DocAve item level backup and restore product is developed for it.DocAve Item Level Backup & Restore is an enterprise data protection solution for SharePoint data. It provides the granular level backup, which could backup one specified item of SharePoint sites. It protects the data for integration and security, and is easy to use.The DocAve system is built up with Server and Agent sides. The Server side is developed by Java,Hibernate,AJAX,JavaScript,Strut and so on. Agent side is developed by .NET, Socket communication, XML and so on. The platform is built up by development tools such as SQL-Server, WASCE, Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio, Subversion. This document will introduce the design and implement of agent side. Started from the system analyze, and integrated with Microsoft SharePoint environment, the item level backup and restore system is divided to some components as following:1. Data browser: Provides the SharePoint objects browser, send the results to GUI, so that DocAve GUI will display accurate SharePoint structure.2. Data Discovery: To discover SharePoint data and make it synchronization with SharePoint. It is started before backup.3. Backup: To backup all objects with properties and security for high availability with SharePoint API and SQL Script.4. Restore: It is for restoring the backup data to SharePoint.5. Control Panel: It provides account management, patch management, license management and agent monitoring features.DocAve Item Level Backup & Restore provides backup and restore solutions for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0. It can fit all kinds of requirements for backing up SharePoint data at any level, meanwhile, protects the integrity and security of backup data.The author did a detailed research for the following items: SharePoint data storage, DocAve Item Level Backup & Restore structure, functionality and related technical. Prove the concept for superiority and feasibility from different views. The publish of DocAve Item Level Backup & Restore, which is able to backup the specified data and storage to file system, is the best solution for saving the storage space of SQL database. It is powerful to backup the important backup data, and avoid the loss and corruption of data. The system is user friendly, which is simple to use for all customers know about SharePoint. It cannot only backup data, and protect the security and integration. It provides the solution for backup all objects through item level to site level. The data protection solution will be the best one for SharePoint customers.