Selective Restore Manager Pro for SharePoint

Restore individual documents and list items from your native SharePoint backups, without requiring a SharePoint recovery farm.

Selective Restore Manager Pro simplifies the process of restoring individual documents and list items, as well as entire SharePoint sites. With Selective Restore Manager Pro, you no longer need to rebuild your entire production database, or worry about deploying a temporary SharePoint recovery farm, just to recover an individual document or list item. Instead, Selective Restore Manager 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 Benefits

• Respond to recovery requests in minutes
• Avoid rebuilding your entire production database just to recover a single item
• Avoid using a SharePoint recovery farm to handle granular restore requests
• Avoid third-party, proprietary back-up formats and costly dedicated hardware
• Recover content out of any SharePoint content database, even if the site is offline or inaccessible

Supported Source Systems

• SQL Server 2000, 2005, and 2008 SharePoint database backups (both full and incremental)
• SQL Server 2000, 2005, and 2008 SharePoint databases
• SharePoint / WSS V2 or V3 full backups, created from Central Admin, STSADM, or SQL Server (both full and incremental)
• Database snapshots created from Microsoft Data Protection Manager

Key Features

• Easy to use

  Similar to the Windows File Explorer, Selective Restore Manager Pro 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 Pro 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 Pro 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 third-party backup solutions, to achieve granular restore functionality for your organization.

• Respond faster to restore requests

  Selective Restore Manager Pro 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 Pro 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 Pro'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 APIs. There are no un-supported, direct writes to any SharePoint database.

• Simple deployment

  Selective Restore Manager Pro 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 Pro can be installed on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 (32-bit or 64-bit editions).