Recovering Sites, Lists, and Items

The term for recovering SharePoint sites, lists, and items using DPM is called item-level recovery. In relation to SharePoint object hierarchy, item-level objects are objects that are stored within a SharePoint content database. Therefore, recovering these objects is only supported by using the SharePoint Object Model. Failure to use the object model—for example, if you attempted to perform a direct extraction—can lead to corruption of the database and the items/data in the database.

This is why item-level data protection has always been a very difficult task to accomplish in relation to protecting a SharePoint farm. To help farm administrators overcome this challenge, the DPM product team introduced the ability ...

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