About using backup (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0)

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Applies To: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

 

You can selectively back up a wide variety of components by using the backup tree on the Perform a Backup page. (For more information about performing a backup, see Back up a farm, Web application, database, or other components (Windows SharePoint Services).)

The components that you can back up are as follows (items that correspond to particular items in the backup tree are in bold type, whereas generic items that describe the type of things that you can back up are in regular type):

  • Farm   The entire farm, including WSS_Administration, the collection of Web applications and databases that makes up Central Administration. Although you must back up the entire farm to backup Central Administration, you can back up the Central Administration content database separately.

  • Windows SharePoint Services Web Application   All Web applications in the farm.

  • Individual SharePoint Web applications.

  • Individual content databases for SharePoint Web applications.

  • SPSearch   The Windows SharePoint Search Service, the search application, and the SPSearch database.