Backup Site collection, Subsite, List / Library - SharePoint 2013

Hello Guys, today I am going to share one of my interesting topics in SharePoint 2013. This is an important one that you have to be ‘aware of’ as it belongs to recovery model. Yes, you are absolutely right; I am talking about Backup-Restore methods in SharePoint 2013.

Microsoft SharePoint 2013 has comes up with so many enhancements and backup restore is one of them. I will try my best here to cover the backup-restore based on GUI (Graphical User Interface) and Powershell so that you will be proficient enough to work on these mentioned methods independently.

Backup Operations

Backup operations are associated with:
-Site collection
-Subsite
-List and Document Libraries

[How to take the backup of SharePoint 2013 site collection using PowerShell]

Here is the complete syntax:-

Backup-SPSite -Identity <SiteCollectionGUIDorURL> -Path <BackupFile> [-Force] [-NoSiteLock] [-UseSqlSnapshot] [-Verbose]

Backup-SPSite http://server_name/sites/site_name -Path C:\Backup\site_name.bak

[How to take the backup of SharePoint 2013 subsite /List / Library using PowerShell]

Here is the complete syntax:-
Export-SPWeb http://site –Path "site export.cmp"

[LIST / LIBRARY BACKUP]
export-spweb -identity http://URLOFYOURSITE -path \\servershare\AMOL\AMYLIST.cmp -itemurl /NAMEOFYOURLIST

If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.