VSS SharePoint

To offer an enhanced solution, standalone Cove Data Protection (Cove) has replaced Backup & Recovery. Where Backup & Recovery has been enabled and continues to be so for devices, the options presented here are still available.

Where Backup & Recovery options are not present on your N-sight RMM dashboard, this means you will now need to use Cove.

To start a 30-day free trial of Cove, click the app switcher in the Product bar, and select Cove Data Protection (Cove).

Before using the VSS SharePoint Backup Plugin (data source) we would suggest setting up your environment as described in the MSDN article: Back up and restore SharePoint using a VSS requestor

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Backup

The following services should be started prior to the backup running:

  • SharePoint Administration
  • SharePoint Foundation Search V14
  • SharePoint Timer
  • SharePoint Server Search (if SharePoint Server is installed)

Restore

The following services should be started prior to restoration:

  • SharePoint VSS Writer
  • Volume Shadow Copy
  • SharePoint Tracing

With the following services stopped:

  • SharePoint Administration
  • SharePoint Foundation Search V14
  • SharePoint Timer
  • SharePoint Server Search (if SharePoint Server is installed)
  • Where the whole farm is to be restored, the SharePoint Foundation and Internet Information Server (IIS) services must be shutdown
  • If only selected Web applications or other components are being restored, the Web applications must be shutdown and the components may not be in use during the restoration