Backup a Farm excluding a web application

Question

(saw link when I posted but got error when accessing them... notably http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010setup/thread/d47a34b2-1405-47e9-9a8e-f9cebdc28cff)

I m planning a backup plan for a sharepoint farm.

Content will grow upper than 100 GB and require a SQL Backup.

So, i had a plan to save the farm once, and periodically shared service.

But this isn't the most satisfactory and i should prefer a complet farm backup where I excluded a site collection or web application (so where i can dont save WSS_Content).

Looking for a way about it, I saw nothing and come to you asking if someone may have a solution for me.

Answer 1

Hi Dwiq,

For this issue, you can back up the farm from UI and exclude the web application which you don’t want to back up. Go to Central Administrator->Backup and Restore-> Perform a Backup, then under select component to back up, uncheck the web application to exclude from back up. Please check it.

Best Regards.

Answer 2

It's ok. Thanks for the tip.

But I also need to script it ! So it's difficult to script an autosave through UI. ^^'