Farm Backup vs Granular Backup - SP 2010

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I am using SharePoint 2010 and I only have 1 Site Collection.

In my CA I can do a Farm Backup or a Granular Backup.

What must I used, I just want to make a full backup of everything including all the content in my Site Collection.

If something go wrong, I want to be able to restore everything the way it was.

Robert Lindgren · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-26 08:43:26Z

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The Farm Backup alternative is meant to be used in the scenario you descibes: When you want to backup everything in the farm in one backup.

Granular backup is used for backing up a specific sharepoint entity, like a sitecollection, web or a list.

answered Apr 26 '13 at 8:43

Robert Lindgren

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If you do a Farm backup, will that also do a backup of all the content saved in my database? – Etienne Apr 26 '13 at 8:44
Yes, in most cases, see this link technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee428295(v=office.14).aspx under Considerations for some special considerations that you have to take into account though. – Robert Lindgren Apr 26 '13 at 8:46

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-13 12:41:30Z

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if you need to have a backup I can advise you to use stsamd utility installed with SharePoint. This is much more stable than using UI.

I have answered similar question here.

hope it helps you,

Andrew

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answered Apr 26 '13 at 11:06

Andrew Adamich

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