{"id":819,"date":"2009-09-16T18:37:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T02:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/?p=819"},"modified":"2019-10-08T16:23:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T23:23:15","slug":"backing-up-sharepoint-sites-using-stsadm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/backing-up-sharepoint-sites-using-stsadm\/","title":{"rendered":"Backing Up SharePoint Sites Using STSADM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While researching some backup solutions for SharePoint sites, I ran into several blogs that have different kinds of solutions. If you are looking for a batch file that runs STSADM to either perform daily backups automatically, using Scheduled Task, or manually as needed, here are some solutions that you may find useful. I will update this list as I find more solutions.<\/p>\n<p>1. A free<em> VBScript by Jerry Rasmussen<\/em> that makes a seven day rolling backup of SharePoint.\u00a0 It will also generate e-mail notifications for administrators.<\/p>\n<p>2. A free <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/shahar\/archive\/2008\/02\/02\/powershell-script-to-backup-sharepoint-site-collection.aspx\">PowerShell script by Shahar Gvirtz<\/a> that uses STSADM. I couldn&#8217;t get this to work but James Brundage from Microsoft PowerShell team was able to help me out.<\/p>\n<p>3. For using STSADM utility in SharePoint, check out <em>Todd Klindt&#8217;s blog pos<a href=\"http:\/\/www.toddklindt.com\/blog\/Lists\/Posts\/Post.aspx?ID=46\">t<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>4. The <em>SharePoint 1970 blog<\/em> has a solution that combines multiple STSADM operations into an automated tool that you can use to backup your site collections.<\/p>\n<p>5. Joel Oleson&#8217;s blog has lots of useful information. This blog in particular sums the backup options pretty good: <em>SharePoint Backup Restore, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>One thing you should know about STSADM is that it has several limitations. If you can live with these limitations, that&#8217;s great. Otherwise, you need to look at other options.<\/p>\n<p><strong>STSADM Limitations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>STSADM backup and restore cannot backup and restore the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. The configuration database<\/p>\n<p>2. Alternate Access Mappings<\/p>\n<p>3. Central Administrator Web Application<\/p>\n<p>4. Central Administrator content database<\/p>\n<p>5. Any custom solutions that you may have deployed<\/p>\n<p>6. The Internet Information Services (IIS) metabase<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While researching some backup solutions for SharePoint sites, I ran into several blogs that have different kinds of solutions. If you are looking for a batch file that runs STSADM to either perform daily backups automatically, using Scheduled Task, or manually as needed, here are some solutions that you may find useful. I will update [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sharepoint","category-tips-tricks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}