Using SharePoint Central Administration for Backup and Restore

The SharePoint 2010 Central Administration Backup and Restore page now comes with two options for backup and restore:

• Farm Backup and Restore

• Granular Backup and Restore

Using the Farm Backup and Restore option, SharePoint administrators can back up the following:

• Complete Farm

• Farm Configuration Only

• Individual Components in a Farm

Granular backup and restore is a new addition in SharePoint 2010 Central Administration tool that enables SharePoint administrators to do the following:

• Back up site collection

• Export document library or list

Ideally the SharePoint Central Administration tool would be used to do a once-off backup or restore operation. As with previous versions, ...

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