Case Study: German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) achieves reliable SharePoint backups and faster intranet migration with AvePoint DocAve

German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Backs up, Migrates Intranet to SharePoint® 2013 with DocAve

The German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany’s largest biomedical research institute with about 3,500 employees, relied on SharePoint as its intranet and collaboration platform but faced serious operational challenges: it needed to back up 220 GB of SharePoint 2007 data with item-level restore and migrate a 5 GB intranet to SharePoint 2013 while discarding outdated customizations and preserving metadata and security settings. DKFZ’s in‑house PowerShell approach was insufficient for automated, granular backups and an efficient migration.

AvePoint’s DocAve Backup and Restore and DocAve Migrator delivered full‑fidelity, automated backups to Tivoli and incremental, metadata‑preserving migration tools that let DKFZ omit stale data and move ~1,200 site collections without manual jobs. With an AvePoint service day to optimize the system, DKFZ cut the migration effort from 1.5 years to 6 months, eliminated the need for its fragile in‑house backup, and gained greater operational efficiency and confidence supported by AvePoint’s global support.

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Bernd Rasemann

ITCF – AG Datenbanken – Team Internet & Intranet,