Backup SharePoint Server 2010
Applies to: SharePoint Server 2010, SharePoint Foundation 2010
The articles in this section are written to meet the requirements of information technology (IT) professionals who are responsible for the planning, design, deployment, and operations of backup and recovery solutions. These solutions might be in enterprise, corporate, or branch office environments. The IT professionals who are responsible for backup and recovery solutions are expected to have an understanding of the technical details that are contained in this section.
A backup is a copy of data that is used to restore and recover that data after a system failure. Backups allow you to restore data after a failure. If you make the appropriate backups, you can recover from many system failures, including the following:
Media failure
User errors (such as deleting a file by mistake)
Hardware failures (such as a damaged hard disk or permanent loss of a server)
Natural disasters
Additionally, it is useful to keep backups of data for routine purposes. Those purposes include copying a database from one server to another, setting up database mirroring, and archiving to comply with regulatory requirements.
Back up all or part of a SharePoint farm
The following tasks for backup and recovery are performed on the entire farm, farm databases, sites, subsites, or files:
Back up a farm in SharePoint Server 2010
This article describes the procedures that you can use to back up the entire farm.
Back up a farm configuration in SharePoint Server 2010
This article describes the procedures that you can use to back up farm configuration settings.
Copy configuration settings between farms (SharePoint Server 2010)
This article describes the procedures that you can use to copy configuration settings from one farm to another, including how to back up and recover a farm without the content databases, how to back up and recover configurations only, and how to create a deployment script.
Back up a Web application in SharePoint Server 2010
This article describes the procedures that you can use to back up a Web application that is associated with the farm, including configuration and content databases.
Back up a service application in SharePoint Server 2010
This article describes the procedures that you can use to back up a service application that is associated with the farm, including configuration and content databases.
Back up search in SharePoint Server 2010
This article describes the procedures that you can use to back up the Search service application that is associated with the farm, including configuration and indexes.
Back up the Secure Store service in SharePoint Server 2010
This article describes the procedures that you can use to back up the Secure Store service application that is associated with the farm, including configuration and content databases.
Back up a content database in SharePoint Server 2010
This article describes the procedures that you can use to back up a content database that is associated with the farm.
Back up databases to snapshots in SharePoint Server 2010
This article describes the procedures that you can use to back up a content database that is associated with the farm by saving the database to a snapshot.
Back up customizations in SharePoint Server 2010
This article describes the procedures that you can use to back up customizations that are associated with the farm.
Back up a site collection in SharePoint Server 2010
This article describes the procedures that you can use to back up site collections that are associated with the farm.
Export a site, list, or document library in SharePoint Server 2010This article describes the procedures that you can use to export a list, site, or document library that is associated with the farm. You can then import the items into another farm or move them to another place in this farm.
Back up or archive logs in SharePoint Server 2010
This article describes the procedures that you can use to back up or archive log files that are associated with the farm.