Acronis SharePoint Explorer - User Guide - Manual (Page 3)

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1 Introducing Acronis SharePoint Explorer
Acronis SharePoint Explorer is a tool intended for extraction of Microsoft SharePoint data from
single-pass backups or from Microsoft SQL databases.
A single-pass backup is an application-aware disk backup which enables browsing and recovery of the
backed-up application data without recovering the entire disk or volume.
If you use Acronis Backup Agent for SQL to protect SharePoint database servers, Acronis SharePoint
Explorer will help you extract documents and other SharePoint items from single-pass backups
created by this agent. Acronis SharePoint Explorer interacts with the agent to temporarily mount a
backed-up database to a running Microsoft SQL Server instance. Once the database is mounted, you
can import the data to a functioning SharePoint farm, or save it to a folder on a file system.
If you back up SharePoint database servers at a disk level (by using Acronis Backup Agent for
Windows), or use third-party software for backing up the databases, you can recover a database as a
set of files and then apply Acronis SharePoint Explorer to extract the necessary data. You just need a
consistent set of .mdf, .ldf and (optionally) .ndf files and a functioning Microsoft SharePoint farm.
1.1 Supported Microsoft SharePoint versions
Acronis SharePoint Explorer supports the following Microsoft SharePoint versions:
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Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2*
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2*
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Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP1
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Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 SP1
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Microsoft SharePoint 2013
*For these versions of Microsoft SharePoint, only extraction from databases is supported. In order to use
Acronis SharePoint Explorer with these versions, you need a SharePoint recovery farm to attach the databases
to.
The single-pass backups or databases from which you extract data must originate from the same
SharePoint version as the one where Acronis SharePoint Explorer is installed.
1.2 Supported backup locations
The following locations support extraction of SharePoint data directly from single-pass backups:
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Local folders of the machine running Acronis SharePoint Explorer console (except optical disks).
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Network shared folders, including personal vaults and centralized unmanaged vaults. The vaults
are accessed as ordinary network shares.
To extract SharePoint data from single-pass backups located in managed vaults, Acronis Secure Zone,
and other locations, additional steps are required. Possible solutions are described in "Choosing an
extraction method" (p. 11).
1.3 Licensing
To install Acronis SharePoint Explorer, you need one of the following license keys: