Chapter19.Backing Up and Restoring SharePoint

Chapter 19. Backing Up and Restoring SharePoint

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Backing Up and Recovering SharePoint Components

• Backing Up and Restoring with FrontPage 2003

• Backing Up SharePoint Sites with Templates

• Using STSADM to Move or Back Up Site Collections

• Migrating SharePoint Site Data Using the SMIGRATE Utility

• Performing SQL Database Level Backups and Restores

A streamlined and efficient SharePoint environment is worthless if a hardware failure wipes it out. Consequently, the ability to back up and restore a SharePoint environment is critical for a SharePoint administrator. Fortunately, SharePoint provides multiple backup and restore techniques, which can be used either exclusively or together as part of an integrated backup strategy. Because there are so many ways of backing up SharePoint, it is important to review each of the backup and restore methods, their pros and cons, and how they can be leveraged to keep a SharePoint environment running smoothly.

This chapter focuses on the backup and restore mechanisms for SharePoint 2003. Step-by-step information on backing up using FrontPage 2003, STSADM, SMIGRATE, SQL tools, and SharePoint Backup and Restore is outlined, and the pros and cons of each method are described.