Understanding Backup and Restore in SharePoint Central Administration

The Backup and Restore section allows you to perform various operations related to performing and restoring backups on your SharePoint farm. This is divided into mainly two sections—Farm Backup and Restore and Granular Backup.

Farm Backup and Restore

This section allows you to perform backup and restore operations on the entire SharePoint farm. Following are the important screens in this section:

Perform a Backup—This screen allows you to back up the entire SharePoint farm. This includes the configuration database, solution store, SharePoint web applications, and shared services. In addition this screen allows you to back up specific components within the farm in case you ...

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