GEPBACKUP2010 and 2013 – automated script generation utility to backup SharePoint 2010 and 2013 Sites

GEPBACKUP2010 and 2013 – automated script generation utility to backup SharePoint 2010 and 2013 Sites

Introduction

From a conversation I had with a SharePoint Administrator:

“Eeee. The client wants site by site backup – that’s going to take me a while to sort out. I need to backup 500 sites via command line but want to know how big the sites are. I also need to know how long each backup took. I know SharePoint has Powershell but I simply don’t have the time to write a script – also, I only want to backup sites which have changed either today, this week, or just want to backup them all up”.

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GEPBACKUP2010 and 2013 – automated script generation utility to backup SharePoint 2010 and 2013 Sites

GEMBackup – SharePoint tool to Automate SharePoint Site Backups

The command line backup / restore routine in SharePoint environment whilst good does not offer any scheduling capability. There are of course products providing granular backup (e.g. DOCAVE) but this is geared to corporate site collections. This document describes the GEMBACKUP application, that can facilitiate the backup of the SharePoint environments and how to backup site collections using a tool I wrote that enumerates the sites and creates a backup batch file that can be scheduled using Windows Scheduler.

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