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title: Back up a SharePoint farm to Azure with MABS
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description: Use Azure Backup Server to back up and restore your SharePoint data. This article provides the information to configure your SharePoint farm so that desired data can be stored in Azure. You can restore protected SharePoint data from disk or from Azure.
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ms.topic: conceptual
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ms.date: 06/08/2018
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ms.date: 04/26/2020
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# Back up a SharePoint farm to Azure with MABS
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You back up a SharePoint farm to Microsoft Azure by using Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS) in much the same way that you back up other data sources. Azure Backup provides flexibility in the backup schedule to create daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly backup points and gives you retention policy options for various backup points. It also provides the capability to store local disk copies for quick recovery-time objectives (RTO) and to store copies to Azure for economical, long-term retention.
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You back up a SharePoint farm to Microsoft Azure by using Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS) in much the same way that you back up other data sources. Azure Backup provides flexibility in the backup schedule to create daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly backup points and gives you retention policy options for various backup points. MABS provides the capability to store local disk copies for quick recovery-time objectives (RTO) and to store copies to Azure for economical, long-term retention.
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## SharePoint supported versions and related protection scenarios
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Backing up SharePoint to Azure with MABS is a similar process to backing up SharePoint to DPM (Data Protection Manager) locally. Particular considerations for Azure will be noted in this article.
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Azure Backup for DPM supports the following scenarios:
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## SharePoint supported versions and related protection scenarios
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| Workload | Version | SharePoint deployment | Protection and recovery |
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| SharePoint |SharePoint 2016, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 3.0 |SharePoint deployed as a physical server or Hyper-V/VMware virtual machine <br> -------------- <br> SQL AlwaysOn | Protect SharePoint Farm recovery options: Recovery farm, database, and file or list item from disk recovery points. Farm and database recovery from Azure recovery points. |
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For a list of supported SharePoint versions and the MABS versions required to back them up see [the MABS protection matrix](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/backup/backup-mabs-protection-matrix)
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## Before you start
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There are a few things you need to confirm before you back up a SharePoint farm to Azure.
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### Prerequisites
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Before you proceed, make sure that you have [installed and prepared the Azure Backup Server](backup-azure-microsoft-azure-backup.md) to protect workloads.
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### Protection agent
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The Azure Backup agent must be installed on the server that's running SharePoint, the servers that are running SQL Server, and all other servers that are part of the SharePoint farm. For more information about how to set up the protection agent, see [Setup Protection Agent](https://docs.microsoft.com/system-center/dpm/deploy-dpm-protection-agent?view=sc-dpm-2019). The one exception is that you install the agent only on a single web front end (WFE) server. Azure Backup Server needs the agent on one WFE server only to serve as the entry point for protection.
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### SharePoint farm
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For every 10 million items in the farm, there must be at least 2 GB of space on the volume where the MABS folder is located. This space is required for catalog generation. For MABS to recover specific items (site collections, sites, lists, document libraries, folders, individual documents, and list items), catalog generation creates a list of the URLs that are contained within each content database. You can view the list of URLs in the recoverable item pane in the **Recovery** task area of MABS Administrator Console.
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### SQL Server
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Azure Backup Server runs as a LocalSystem account. To back up SQL Server databases, MABS needs sysadmin privileges on that account for the server that's running SQL Server. Set NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM to *sysadmin* on the server that's running SQL Server before you back it up.
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If the SharePoint farm has SQL Server databases that are configured with SQL Server aliases, install the SQL Server client components on the front-end Web server that MABS will protect.
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### SharePoint Server
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While performance depends on many factors such as size of SharePoint farm, as general guidance one MABS can protect a 25-TB SharePoint farm.
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* MABS that protects a SharePoint farm does not protect search indexes or application service databases. You will need to configure the protection of these databases separately.
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* MABS does not provide backup of SharePoint SQL Server databases that are hosted on scale-out file server (SOFS) shares.
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## Configure SharePoint protection
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Before you can use MABS to protect SharePoint, you must configure the SharePoint VSS Writer service (WSS Writer service) by using **ConfigureSharePoint.exe**.
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You can find **ConfigureSharePoint.exe** in the [MABS Installation Path]\bin folder on the front-end web server. This tool provides the protection agent with the credentials for the SharePoint farm. You run it on a single WFE server. If you have multiple WFE servers, select just one when you configure a protection group.
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### To configure the SharePoint VSS Writer service
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1. On the WFE server, at a command prompt, go to [MABS installation location]\bin\
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2. Enter ConfigureSharePoint -EnableSharePointProtection.
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3. Enter the farm administrator credentials. This account should be a member of the local Administrator group on the WFE server. If the farm administrator isn't a local admin grant the following permissions on the WFE server:
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* Grant the WSS_Admin_WPG group full control to the DPM folder (%Program Files%\Microsoft Azure Backup\DPM).
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* Grant the WSS_Admin_WPG group read access to the DPM Registry key (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Data Protection Manager).
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* MABS that protects a SharePoint farm doesn't protect search indexes or application service databases. You'll need to configure the protection of these databases separately.
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## Back up a SharePoint farm by using MABS
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After you have configured MABS and the SharePoint farm as explained previously, SharePoint can be protected by MABS.
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### To protect a SharePoint farm
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1. From the **Protection** tab of the MABS Administrator Console, click **New**.
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![New Protection Tab](./media/backup-azure-backup-sharepoint/dpm-new-protection-tab.png)
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2. On the **Select Protection Group Type** page of the **Create New Protection Group** wizard, select **Servers**, and then click **Next**.
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![Select Protection Group type](./media/backup-azure-backup-sharepoint/select-protection-group-type.png)
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3. On the **Select Group Members** screen, select the check box for the SharePoint server you want to protect and click **Next**.
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![Select group members](./media/backup-azure-backup-sharepoint/select-group-members2.png)
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![Select data protection method](./media/backup-azure-backup-sharepoint/select-data-protection-method1.png)
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5. On the **Specify Short-Term Goals** page, select your preferred **Retention range** and identify when you want backups to occur.
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![Specify short-term goals](./media/backup-azure-backup-sharepoint/specify-short-term-goals2.png)
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![Choose replica creation method](./media/backup-azure-backup-sharepoint/choose-replica-creation-method.png)
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8. MABS ensures data integrity by performing consistency checks on the replica. There are two available options. You can define a schedule to run consistency checks, or DPM can run consistency checks automatically on the replica whenever it becomes inconsistent. Select your preferred option, and then click **Next**.
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Before you continue, make sure that you've met all the [prerequisites for using Microsoft Azure Backup](backup-azure-dpm-introduction.md#prerequisites-and-limitations) to protect workloads. Some tasks for prerequisites include: create a backup vault, download vault credentials, install Azure Backup Agent, and register the Azure Backup Server with the vault.
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![Consistency Check](./media/backup-azure-backup-sharepoint/consistency-check.png)
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Additional prerequisites and limitations can be found on the [Back up SharePoint with DPM](https://docs.microsoft.com/system-center/dpm/back-up-sharepoint?view=sc-dpm-2019#prerequisites-and-limitations) article.
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![DPM SharePoint Protection1](./media/backup-azure-backup-sharepoint/select-online-protection1.png)
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![Online_backup_schedule](./media/backup-azure-backup-sharepoint/specify-online-backup-schedule.png)
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To back up the SharePoint farm, configure protection for SharePoint by using ConfigureSharePoint.exe and then create a protection group in MABS. For instructions, see [Configure Backup](https://docs.microsoft.com//system-center/dpm/back-up-sharepoint?view=sc-dpm-2019#configure-backup) in the DPM documentation.
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![Online_retention_policy](./media/backup-azure-backup-sharepoint/specify-online-retention.png)
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![Online_replica](./media/backup-azure-backup-sharepoint/online-replication.png)
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To learn how to restore a SharePoint item from a disk with DPM, see [Restore SharePoint data](https://docs.microsoft.com/system-center/dpm/back-up-sharepoint?view=sc-dpm-2019#restore-sharepoint-data).
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See the [Back up Exchange server](backup-azure-exchange-mabs.md) article.

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