Backup Restore in sharepoint 2013 + Backup and Recovery Tools for SharePoint

A good backup is an excellent approach to prevent data loss & repair database in most of the data corruption cases. 

If your backup is not well structured then it will not help you to recover your data at any cost.

Back up a site collection by using Windows PowerShell

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

Example: Backup-SPSite -Identity http://sharepointamol/sites/planet -Path D:\planet.bak -force

Along with this, we can use the following parameters with respect to our requirements:

-Force: overwrite a previously used backup file

-NoSiteLock: keep the read-only lock from being set on the site collection while it is being backed up

Restore site collection by using windows PowerShell

Restore-SPSite -Identity <SiteCollectionURL> -Path <BackupFile>  -Force

Back up a Farm in SharePoint 2013 by using windows PowerShell

Backup-SPFarm -Directory <BackupFolder> -BackupMethod {Full | Differential} [-Verbose]

<BackupFolder> is the path of a folder on the local computer

Backing up sites, lists, and libraries

Export-SPWeb –Identity “http://SharePointamol/Planets/SharePoint2013” –Path “E:\Backups\SharePointPlanetSite.cmp”

Import List: Using Powershell

Import-SPWeb http://sharepointamol.com -path E:\backup\planets.cmp -updateversions overwrite

Backup and Recovery Tools for SharePoint

http://www.topsharepoint.com/backup-and-recovery-tools-for-sharepoint

DocAve Backup and Restore for Microsoft® SharePoint Backup

http://www.avepoint.com/sharepoint-backup-and-restore-docave/

A Simple Way to Restore Individual SharePoint Documents

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-cms/a-simple-way-to-restore-individual-sharepoint-documents-004917.php

Performance best practices for SharePoint backup and restore operations

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg266384.aspx#section_perf

- See more at: http://sharepointknowledgebase.blogspot.in/2013/08/backup-restore-in-sharepoint-2013.html#sthash.0dLlwuSC.dpuf

Business Data Connectivity connectors are currently enabled in a partitioned environment: SharePoint 2013.

Problem: You could see in SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "Business Data Connectivity connectors are currently enabled in a partitioned environment."

Background:  Business Data Connectivity (BDC) Models containing External Content Types with database, WCF, Web service or custom connectors can be used by tenants to elevate their user permissions. In a partitioned environment, we recommend you disable the Business Data Connectivity connectors.

Reason for error: Business Data Connectivity connectors are currently enabled in a partitioned environment.

Resolution: Disable unwanted connectors by using Windows PowerShell.

To disable unwanted connectors, follow these steps:

1.      Click Start, click All Programs.

2.      Click Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products.

3.      Click SharePoint 2010 Management Shell.

4.      At the Windows PowerShell command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER:

Get-SPServiceApplicationProxy

5.      Note the Business Data Connectivity proxy instance.

6.      You must set the EnableSystemType property to false for each unwanted connector. To do this, at the Windows PowerShell prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER:

$proxy.EnableSystemType("Connector_type",$false)

Reference: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/983546

Applies to:

·        SharePoint Server 2013 

·        SharePoint Foundation 2013