Welcome to Quest Recovery Manager for SharePoint

Quest Recovery Manager for SharePoint is an easy to use, innovative solution that helps IT administrators quickly locate deleted or modified SharePoint documents and other items and then restore them with any level of granularity from a content database backup.

	Add SharePoint Farm To start managing a farm with Recovery Manager you first need to add it. Right-click Enterprise SharePoint node under Quest Management Console to start the Add Farm Wizard. You do not need this step with Recovery Manager Basic Edition that works with the local SharePoint farm.
	Protect SharePoint Data Recovery Manager does not require any additional item-level backups to be created and can granularly restore a single item from a solid database backup. Use SharePoint Central Administration to create farm backup or see Recovery Manager documentation for the full list of supported backup formats.
	Discover Backups Recovery Manager automatically discovers new backups of SharePoint content databases every night. You can also initiate backup initiate backup discovery manually when a backup completes. Browse to the web application node under Recovery Manager > Enterprise SharePoint and click Refresh on the toolbar.
	Analyze Backup Recovery Manager analyzes backups to make the backup contents searchable. To analyze a backup, browse to the web application node under Recovery Manager > Enterprise SharePoint. Then select a backup in the right-hand pane and click Analyze on the toolbar. You can also configure Recovery Manager to automatically analyze new backups as they become available. To review and change configuration settings select the Enterprise SharePoint node under Recovery Manager.
	Search and Restore Use the Search node under Recovery Manager to quickly find the data that should be restored. A single search query can span multiple backups and live SharePoint recycle bins. Alternatively you can navigate to a backup for a specific SharePoint web application under Recovery Manager > Enterprise SharePoint. Once you locate the content, choose one of the available recovery options for the located content. Recovery Manager allows you to restore data back to its original location, to a different location in SharePoint, or save files and folders to the file system.