Friday, February 23, 2018

Site backup through Central Administration site

You can take the site collection back up through central administration site apart from using the BackUp-SPSite and Restore-SPSite PS command. The advantage of this approach is getting the status report while your site being backed up by the timer services.

 You can prefer this backup approach, if you are continuously taking the back up of huge site because It lets the administrator to have his/her network shared location which can be attached the high end storage medium (SAN). Before this, you need to create the shared folder location and set the access permission (Read and Write) for it.

It support the granular backup approach

You can also restrict the user permission over this folder by selecting the specific user or group.

 I have the small site collection at my machine and backed up through this approach.One should aware of the advantages and disadvantage by comparing the PS Commands BackUp and Restore. Once you backed up the site collection, you need to verify its integrity this where lack this approach. BackUp-SPSite has the parameter UseSQLSnapshot.


After successful backup task completion