For many organizations, SharePoint is a platform of choice for data storage and collaboration, so keeping SharePoint data safe and available is critical. Microsoft provides a number of utilities to help SharePoint administrators back up and recover lost SharePoint data. This paper describes those tools and explains the backup and recovery scenarios in which they are useful. It also identifies a key limitation of those tools: they do not provide quick granular recovery of a particular lost SharePoint item-the most common recovery scenario. The paper concludes by introducing Quest Recovery Manager for SharePoint, which provides easy and fast granular recovery of SharePoint items from your existing backups.