Back up a farm by using built-in tools (Search Server 2008)

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Applies To: Microsoft Search Server 2008

 

Topic Last Modified: 2008-08-13

Draft content This article was published for an earlier version of this product and is being published without changes for this release.

There are two methods you can use to back up and restore data for Microsoft Search Server 2008 by using SharePoint Products and Technologies:

  • You can use the SharePoint Central Administration Web site to back up and restore Search Server 2008. This tool allows you to perform backups and restorations from the user interface. When you use this method, you can back up the server farm, Web applications, and any or all of the content databases in your server farm. You can use the Stsadm command-line tool to view backup and recovery history and to view backup and recovery job status.

  • You can use the Stsadm command-line tool to back up the server farm, Web applications, and any or all of the content databases in your server farm. You can use Stsadm to view backup and recovery history and to view backup and recovery job status. This method of backing up and restoring data does not require SQL Server 2000 tools or SQL Server 2005 tools. However, you must still be an administrator on a server computer that has Search Server 2008 installed or one of the server products in the Office 2007 release in order to perform this method of backing up and restoring.

Using the built-in tools of Search Server 2008, you can back up and restore an entire server farm or specific Web applications and content databases. These built-in tools allow you to keep elements of your server farm, such as search and the Shared Services Provider, synchronized when backing up and restoring.

For more information about how the data protection tools included with Search Server 2008 compare with other tools for protecting data, see Choose backup and recovery tools (Office SharePoint Server).

You can use the following procedures to back up and restore data for Search Server 2008 by using built-in tools.

Back up your farm by using built-in tools

The following are required to perform the procedures for this task:

  • To back up your farm using the Central Administration Web page, you must be a member of the Farm Administrators SharePoint group.

  • To back up your farm using the Stsadm command-line tool, you must be a member of the Administrators group on the local server computer.

To back up your farm, you can perform either of the following two procedures:

Note

The SharePoint Central Administration Web site cannot automate backups. Backup automation using the Stsadm command-line tool requires a custom batch file and use of the Task Scheduler in Microsoft Windows.

See Also

Concepts

Back up and restore an entire farm (Search Server 2008)
Restore a farm by using built-in tools (Search Server 2008)
Back up a farm by using SQL Server tools (Search Server 2008)
Restore a farm by using SQL Server tools (Search Server 2008)
Restore a farm after a configuration database problem (Search Server 2008)