Recover to the original location

Select this option to recover files to their original location. The old database and its files are overwritten while recovery is in progress.

Recover to an alternate location

Select this option to copy the recovered files to an alternate destination. Click Browse to specify an alternate location.

Copy to tape

Select this option to copy the storage group to a tape in a DPM library. Note that the storage group or volume can also contain data that was not selected for recovery.

Recover to original Exchange Server location

Select this option if you do not want to specify an alternate location. The old database and its files are overwritten while recovery is in progress.

Note
This option is available only if the latest recovery point is selected. If a database is selected for recovery, only the latest point in time can be recovered.

All the databases in the storage group are dismounted during recovery. The database is remounted after the recovery completes.

Recover to any instance of SQL Server

Select this option if you do not want to specify an alternate location. The old database and its files are overwritten while recovery is in progress.

Note
This option is available only if the latest recovery point is selected. If a database is selected for recovery, only the latest point in time can be recovered.

All the databases in the storage group are dismounted during recovery. The database is remounted after the recovery completes.

Copy to a network folder

Select this option to copy the recovered data to a network folder. Type the location on the next screen.

Recover to another database or storage group on an Exchange server

Select this option to recover to another database or storage group on an Exchange-based server that has a protection agent installed.

Recover to a Recovery Storage Group

Select this option to recover Exchange data sources to a recovery storage group.

Recover to the original instance of SQL Server (overwrite database)

Select this option if you want the current database files to be overwritten during recovery. This option is not available for mirrored databases.

Recover to any instance of SQL Server

Select this option to recover data onto the same instance of SQL Server in an alternate database, or on an alternate instance of SQL Server without affecting your production environment.

Note
If you recover data to the same instance of SQL Server with the same database name, it will affect your production environment.

Copy to a network folder

Select this option to copy the recovered data to a network folder. You can select the location of the network folder on the next screen.

Copy to tape.

Select this option to copy the data to tape creating a long-term archive or portable media of the data for any recovery point.

Recover all SharePoint content and components

Select this option to overwrite the SharePoint farm’s configuration database and all the content databases while they are online. This option is not available:

• For databases that are part of the recovery point where backup metadata enumeration failed. At the time of a recovery point creation, backup metadata enumeration can fail for the following reasons:
  
  
  • “ConfigureSharePoint.exe –EnableSharePointProtection” was not run with correct farm administrator credentials on the front-end Web server.
    
    
  • SharePoint VSS writer was in bad state on the front-end Web server.
    
    

Note
If some SQL Server databases in the selected SharePoint farm are mirrored then additional options are shown on the next screen. Please see in the following section for help on these options.

Copy all SharePoint content and component files to a network folder

Select this option to copy all the farm’s databases to a network folder. The network folder path can be provided in the Alternate folder text box by using the Browse button.

Copy the Windows SharePoint Services farm to tape

Select this option to copy the SharePoint farm databases to a tape in a DPM library.

You find the following options when some SQL Server databases in the selected SharePoint farm are mirrored and you select Recover all SharePoint content and components option in the Select Recovery Type page of the Recovery Wizard.

Typical recovery

Select this option to recover the mirrored SQL Server databases to the instances of SQL server that were hosting these databases as the principal database when the selected recovery point was created.

Custom recovery

Select this option to recover the mirrored SQL Server databases of the SharePoint farm to the instances of SQL Server. At the point of recovery point creation, for each mirrored SQL Server database, you can select either of its partner instances of SQL Server (principal/mirror). Before you select the instance of SQL Server, make sure of the following:

• The selected instance of SQL Server is online.
  
  
• The SQL alias being used on the Front-end Web Server points to the selected instance of SQL Server.
  
  

Recover to the original instance of SQL Server of the selected Windows SharePoint Services farm

Select this option to overwrite the specified database while it is online. This option is not available:

• For databases that are part of the recovery point where backup metadata enumeration failed. At the time of a recovery point creation, backup metadata enumeration can fail for the following reasons:
  
  
  • “ConfigureSharePoint.exe –EnableSharePointProtection” was not run with correct farm administrator credentials on the front-end Web server.
    
    
  • SharePoint VSS writer was in bad state on the front-end Web server.
    
    
• For mirrored databases.
  
  
  

  Note
  To recover mirrored database to its original instance of SQL Server, select the Recover to any SQL Instance option and then specify the recovery destination path pointing to its original instance of SQL Server on the Specify Alternate Recovery Location page.

Recover to any SQL instance

Select this option to recover the selected database to:

• The original instance of a SQL Server if the selected database is offline.
  
  
• The original instance of a SQL Server as different database. (You can change the name of the database in the Specify Alternate Recovery Location page of the Recovery Wizard).
  
  
• To an alternate instance of a SQL Server.
  
  

Note
If you recover the database to the same instance of a SQL Server with the same database name, it can affect your production environment.

Copy the database files to a network folder

Select this option to copy the selected SharePoint database to a network folder. The network folder path can be provided in the Alternate folder text box by using the Browse button.

Recover all the SharePoint Search index components

Select this option to recover the SharePoint Search/MOSS Shared Services Provider (SSP) components to their original locations. For more information, in the DPM Operations Guide, see Recovering Indexes in MOSS 2007 and Recovering WSS Indexes.

Copy the SharePoint Search index components to an alternate network folder

Select this option to copy the recovered search index components to an alternate network folder.

Copy the SharePoint Search index components to tape

Select this option to copy the SharePoint Search or MOSS SSP Search components to a tape in a DPM library.

Recover to original site

Select this option to recover the selected item to the URL where it belonged at the time of backup (as displayed in the recoverable item pane).

Recover to an alternate site

Select this option to recover the selected item to a different URL within the same SharePoint farm.

Recover to the original instance

Select this option to recover files to their original location. The old database and its files are overwritten while recovery is in progress.

Recover to a network folder

Select this option to recover the data to a network folder. You can select the location on the next screen.

Copy to tape.

Select this option to copy the virtual machine to a tape in a DPM library.

Recover to the original instance

Select this option to recover a virtual machine to its original location. The original files are overwritten.

Recover as virtual machine to any host

Select this option to recover a virtual machine to a different Hyper-V host, or to an alternate location on the same Hyper-V host.

Note
Restoring the virtual machine to the same Hyper-V host will overwrite an existing instance of the same virtual machine present on the same Hyper-V host.

Note
Hyper-V virtual machines that are recovered to a cluster node will not be highly available. For more information about how to make a virtual machine highly available, see Make the virtual machine highly available (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=160484).

Copy to a network folder

Select this option to recover the VHD and other configuration files of the virtual machine on to a network folder.

Note
After recovery, you must manually create a virtual machine by using the recovered VHD files of the virtual machine.

Copy to tape

Select this option to copy the virtual machine to a tape in a DPM library.

Copy to a network folder

Select this option to copy the recovered system state data to a network folder. You can select the location on the next screen.

Copy to tape.

Select this option to copy the system state data to a tape in a DPM library.

Recover replica to primary DPM server

Select this option when you are recovering a primary DPM server. For more information about recovering protected computers and DPM servers, in the DPM 2010 Operations Guide, see Disaster Recovery (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=179152).