Backing Up and Restoring Sites by Using the Operations Page in SharePoint Central Administration

Using the Central Administration Web page is the easiest way to back up WSS 3.0 sites. System administrators usually make this type of backup. Within Central Administration, the Operations page provides an entire category of features called Backup And Restore, as shown in Figure 14-1.

Backup And Restore options available on the Central Administration Operations page.

Figure 14-1. Backup And Restore options available on the Central Administration Operations page.

At this point, you are really just a few simple clicks away from being able to perform a backup, view the backup and restore history, restore from a previous backup, or view the ...

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