SharePoint 2010 provides two types of backup categories in SharePoint 2010. They are known as Granular and Farm.
Granular:
- Granular has two main types which are site collections and Web site or list.
- These backup mainly focuses on single content database.
- Granular backups are content backups that work on the site collection, website, or list level.
- These backups can be performed using Central Administration, STSADM, or PowerShell commands.
- But it is not recommended to run site collection backups if your site collection is larger than
around 15 GB.
Farm:
- These are bascially towards web farms and web application levels.
- These are basically into farm configurations, solution packages, web applications, service applications, whole content databases etc.
- These backups can be performed using Central Administration, STSADM, or PowerShell commands.
Granular:
- Granular has two main types which are site collections and Web site or list.
- These backup mainly focuses on single content database.
- Granular backups are content backups that work on the site collection, website, or list level.
- These backups can be performed using Central Administration, STSADM, or PowerShell commands.
- But it is not recommended to run site collection backups if your site collection is larger than
around 15 GB.
Farm:
- These are bascially towards web farms and web application levels.
- These are basically into farm configurations, solution packages, web applications, service applications, whole content databases etc.
- These backups can be performed using Central Administration, STSADM, or PowerShell commands.
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