Backup Restore in SharePoint 2010

Backup Operations

Backup operations are associated with:

·         Site collection

·         Subsite

·         List and Document Libraries

How to take the backup of the site collection:

By using Central Administration

·         Open the central administration

·         Backup and Restore

·         Granular Backup

·         Perform a site collection backup

·         Select the appropriate web application and site collection from the dropdown

·         Provide the filename

·         Start backup

·         You will be redirected to _admin/sitebackuporexportstatus.aspx

·         It shows the status ‘Operation initializing’

·         It will take some time to complete the backup depending on the size of the site collection

·         As soon as the backup completed then the status will change to ‘Operation Succeeded’

·         That’s it and you are done... check the file location and you will see the backup file that you have specified in the above mentioned steps.

By using STSADM command

For site collection backup:

    stsadm.exe -o backup -URL <URL> -filename <filename> [-overwrite]

By using Powershell command

Backup-SPSite -Identity http://SharePointBackuptesting/sites/AMOL2010 -Path <Filename>

How to take the backup of the subsite

By using Central Administration

§  Open the central administration

§  Backup and restore

§  Granular backup

§  Export a site or list

§  Select the appropriate web application, site collection and subsite

§  Provide the filename

§  Select Export Security (If you want to include permissions)

§  Export Versions (by default ‘All Versions’ selected)

§  Start backup

§  You will be redirected to _admin/sitebackuporexportstatus.aspx

§  It will take some time to complete the backup depending on the size of the site collection

§  As soon as the backup completed then the status will change to ‘Operation Succeeded’

§  That’s it and you are done... check the file location and you will see the backup file that you have specified in the above mentioned steps.

By using STSADM command

stsadm.exe -o export -URL <URL to be exported> -filename <export file name>

By using Powershell command

Export-SPWeb -Identity <URL of the subsite> -Path <filename> -IncludeUserSecurity

How to take the backup of the List/Document Library

By using Central Administration

·         Open the central administration

·         Backup and restore

·         Granular backup

·         Export a site or list

·         Select the appropriate web application, site collection and List/Document Library.

·         Provide the filename

·         Select Export Security (If you want to include permissions)

·         Export Versions (by default ‘All Versions’ selected)

·         Start backup

·         You will be redirected to _admin/sitebackuporexportstatus.aspx

·         It will take some time to complete the backup depending on the size of the site collection

·         As soon as the backup completed then the status will change to ‘Operation Succeeded’

·         That’s it and you are done... check the file location and you will see the backup file that you have specified in the above mentioned steps.

By using Powershell command

Export-SPWeb –Identity <Site URL> -Path <Filename> -ItemURL “Lists/Tasks” –includeusersecurity

Automated PowerShell Script to backup SharePoint Farm or Site Collection with email Notification

http://sharepointpolice.com/blog/2010/12/07/automated-powershell-script-to-backup-sharepoint-farm-or-site-collection-with-email-notification/

automating-installation-and-configuration-sharepoint-2010

http://www.sharepoint2007security.com/blog/2011-02-07/automating-installation-and-configuration-sharepoint-2010

SharePoint Ports, Proxies and Protocols .... An overview of farm communications

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/uksharepoint/archive/2009/01/05/sharepoint-ports-proxies-and-protocols-an-overview-of-farm-communications.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/wbaer/archive/2011/09/02/sharepoint-2010-and-windows-firewall-with-advanced-security.aspx

http://msmvps.com/blogs/laflour/archive/2009/11/04/sharepoint-2007-farm-ports-configuring-firewall.aspx

http://www.topsharepoint.com/enable-port-access-for-sharepoint-sites

SharePoint Powershell Commands

To restore a site collection by using Windows PowerShell

1. Verify that you meet the following minimum requirements: See Add-SPShellAdmin. Additionally, verify that the user account performing this procedure has read permissions to the backup folder and is a member of the db_owner fixed database role on both the farm configuration database and the content database where the site collection is being restored.
2. On the Start menu, click All Programs.
3. Click Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products.
4. Click SharePoint 2010 Management Shell.
5. At the Windows PowerShell command prompt (that is, PS C:\>), type the following command, and then press ENTER:
   Restore-SPSite -Identity <Site collection URL> -Path <Backup file> [-DatabaseServer <Database server name>] [-DatabaseName <Content database name>] [-HostHeader <Host header>] [-Force] [-GradualDelete] [-Verbose]
   If you want to restore the site collection to a specific content database, use the DatabaseServer and DatabaseName parameters to specify the content database. If you do not specify a content database, the site collection will be restored to a content database chosen by Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.
   If you are restoring a host-named site collection, use the Identity parameter to specify the URL of the host-named site collection and use the HostHeader parameter to specify the URL of the Web application that will hold the host-named site collection.
   If you want to overwrite an existing site collection, use the Force parameter.

Example:
Restore-SPSite -Identity "http://eis" -Path "c:\backup\eis.bak" -Force