Any other option to restore files from a week old backup

We are managing a SharePoint farm with 2TB data, where we generally get two/three tickets in a week to restore file/page/list that was "accidently" deleted by end users. We use unattached content db approach to restore from old backup which is a time consuming operation due to database size and dependency with other teams.

Is there any other "Microsoft supported" option to keep a week old content databases somewhere else so that I can restore it from that unattached content db?

J Justin

 

 
August 28th, 2015 3:13am

As per my understanding, you are restoring data from a week old content database backup file. For this, you are doing restore from backup file, unattach it and then recover your data.

first, you should be able to recover files/pages/list from end user recycle bin where data is kept for 30 days ( by default) after deletion. After 30 days, deleted items are moved to site collection recycle bin and stays there for 30 days more, by default. So you should not need to restore database for 2 months from old content database.

You can also tune recycle bin to your needs: http://www.mssharepointtips.com/tip.asp?id=1064 (It's written for 2010, but same concepts in 2013 as well).

To your question, there's not really a way to keep a week old content databases somewhere in same farm. You can restore you content database to different SP farm like QA/Dev one, mount it and then recover data from there. However, there is again no way to keep that content database refreshed automatically. You should really look upon a strategy to divide your sites into different databases of smaller size to reduce backup/restore time.

Hope this helps.

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August 28th, 2015 9:27am

I would suggest getting the users trained on SharePoint and how to use it cause simply deleting items every week is not right... something is wrong. Think of how would you manage if the user base doubled in capacity, if you have an important deployment or critical issue that you are trying to correct.. would it be efficient to put your  expertise in such a task when something important needs your attention...


August 28th, 2015 9:37am

HI Justin,I would suggest to enable the recycle bin to store the deleted backups with in month.check the link below that explains more in details on the recycle bin store.

http://expertsharepoint.blogspot.com/2014/06/how-to-restore-deleted-site-in.html

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September 3rd, 2015 12:59am

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