SharePoint 2019 Central Administration” console backup

Question

Hi, if I backup my share sites (farm full backup), the “SharePoint 2019 Central Administration” console needs more space (~247 GB) to backup than I just backup using from “PowerShell ISE”.

But using “PowerShell ISE”, it only needs 300 MB. Here it’s the command.
Backup-SPSite xxxxxxcd490-06c7xxxxx -Path C:\Backup\SharePoint\sp-home-20200914.bak

Do you know why? Could you please help me to fix it? We use SharePoint 2019 server with SQL server 2019. Thanks.

Andy

Answer 1

Hi @Andy King
The Backup-SPSite cmd is used to back up a single site collection instead of a whole farm, so it only needs 300 MB.

If you need to start a full back up, you could use a cmd Backup-SPFarm. The Backup-SPFarm cmdlet creates a backup for the entire farm or individual components within the farm. It can also be used to back up just the configuration settings of a farm to be used as a farm template for other SharePoint farms.

For more information about back up farms in sharepoint server, you could refer to:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/administration/back-up-a-farm#use-powershell-to-back-up-a-farm-in-sharepoint-server

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Answer 2

I will try this cmd "Backup-SPFarm" to see if the backup works. Thanks.