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How we can be sure that we have sufficient backups for our sharepoint on-premises 2013/2016
We have sharepoint on-premises servers 2013/2016 , which have the following architecture:- 1. windows server 2012/2008 R2 which act as the application servers. 2. windows server 2012/2008 R2 which ...
Configuration/Administration databases cannot be restored. If a farm wasn't built with PowerShell, then using `Backup-SPFarm -ConfigurationOnly` is appropriate. Other than that, use SQL jobs to backup databases.
Trevor Seward wrote:
Configuration/Administration databases cannot be restored. If a farm wasn't built with PowerShell, then using `Backup-SPFarm -ConfigurationOnly` is appropriate. Other than that, use SQL jobs to backup databases.
Trevor Sewardcan you advice what do you mean by configuration/administration databases cannot be restored? are those usual sql databases that can be backed-up from sql management studio and got restored?? and how we can recreate these databases if we faced an issue that require restoring the Configuration/Administration databases ?