backups

Sep
19

Free SharePoint Backups Email Log

by Wahid Saleemi

In a very recent post, I showed you a script written in Visual BASIC (vbs) to have your log file emailed to you on a schedule. This script didn’t work for me on my Windows Server 2008 machines. I got the error “Reportlog.vbs:(52,2). CDO.Message.1: The transport failed to connect to the server.” I later confirmed [...]

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Sep
17

Free SharePoint Backups (4 of 4)

by Wahid Saleemi

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Free SharePoint Backups

This is the 4th and final article of the Free SharePoint Backups series. If you haven’t already, check out: Article 1: Back up Site Collections automatically. Article 2:Perform a Farm-level backup automatically. Article 3:Back up other SharePoint componenets. So, in the last article of the series we’ll look at some of those 3rd party products. I have [...]

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Sep
16

Free SharePoint Backups (3 of 4)

by Wahid Saleemi

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Free SharePoint Backups

This is the 3rd article of the Free SharePoint Backups series. If you haven’t already, check out: Article 1: Back up Site Collections automatically. Article 2:Perform a Farm-level backup automatically. In the 3rd article, we’ll talk about some of the other things that need to be backed up on a SharePoint server. I have scripts [...]

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Sep
14

Free SharePoint Backups (2 of 4)

by Wahid Saleemi

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Free SharePoint Backups

In the first article, I showed you one way to use a Windows script, batch file and task scheduler to perform a backup of each Site Collection in your farm. Next up: Backing up the entire farm This is really very simple. As you may know, you can use the Backup/Restore function in the SharePoint [...]

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Sep
11

Free SharePoint Backups (1 of 4)

by Wahid Saleemi

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Free SharePoint Backups

I’ll be writing a series of 4 articles on how to backup SharePoint for free. In future articles we’ll discuss backing up different components you may need to perform a disaster recovery or a simple backup. These are “okay” backup solutions and definitely can’t compare to 3rd party backup solutions which I’ll touch on in [...]

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