The native SharePoint tools for backup under SharePoint 2007 are a major step forward over the 2003 edition. But there still are major issues in the areas of granularity, performance, fidelity, and usability. By using just the native tools, organizations will still be exposed to the risk of losing or damaging critical business information. This white paper is intended for IT Professionals who are responsible for helping companies evaluate, plan and execute data backups for SharePoint.

How do you satisfy different Recovery Service Level Agreements to different categories of data hosted in the same database? How can you offer a higher level of recovery guarantee for a team that's working on a business critical deal? How can you both back up and recover the exact document, without being required to back up the other 99.9%? How can you ensure that the recovery of those documents does not harm your business processes? Those are the questions that this white paper explains.