E got the license for the backup software today. Full backups work perfectly. This is not a surprise, as they are basically the same as running a backup from the command line. You back up the entire Site Collection, and can only do an all or nothing restore. Exactly the same capability we have now….

E got the license for the backup software today.

Full backups work perfectly. This is not a surprise, as they are basically the same as running a backup from the command line. You back up the entire Site Collection, and can only do an all or nothing restore. Exactly the same capability we have now.

Still, I was able to test backing up a Site Collection, and then restoring the Site Collection. Everything worked as expected, so that’s good.

The item level backups are failing, however. I’m pretty certain that they’re failing because of the same bug that’s breaking exports. Specifically, this is a problem with Microsoft’s Fab 40 templates and the GUID used in some of the documents. I’ve put in a support call with our vendor, partly to see if they can fix the problem, partly to see how well their support works.

I suspect that the fix will be to uninstall the templates. I’ll have to see if this will be acceptible to Dave who’s shown some interest in a few of the templates.