Is backup and restore for wimps? Not in SharePoint.

Is backup and restore  for wimps? Yes and No.
It is often easy to configure backup, but mostly people doesn't test that it actually test the restore.

Some the day you will be happy that you configured backup and tested the restore. By using DPM in SharePoint this is really easy.

To configure it, use the Wizard in DPM. Be aware that it doesn't include all SharePoint databases, so you may want to include the following databases:
- master
- _MetaDataDB
- _ProfileDB
- _SocialDB
- _SyncDB

To restore items. Start DPM and select Recovery. Then you can browse through the item, and more or less Next -> Next ->..

And then you have it recovered.

References
-Sharepoint 2010 protection in DPM 2010: Part 3
-Data Protection Manager 2010 - Recovering Sharepoint 2010 Items without recovery farm  (YouTube) (skip to 4min 27sec)

 (I haven't misspelled SharePoint, it is the blog author)

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