Why doing Backup-SPFarm for our sharepoint 2013 will update the sql databases “Last Database backup”

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we have SharePoint enterprise 2013, and i run the following command to do a farm backup:-



Backup-SPFarm -Directory \****backups -BackupMethod full -BackupThreads 10 -Force


now on the generated backup folder i got many .bak files ranging from 2kb size to 10 GB... also i have noted that for our sharepoint sql databases the "Last Database backup" date will be updates as follow:-



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so can i conclude that the Backup-SPFarm will mainly do a pure sql databases backups ? also what are the .bak files which have small sizes such as 3 kb ?










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    we have SharePoint enterprise 2013, and i run the following command to do a farm backup:-



    Backup-SPFarm -Directory \****backups -BackupMethod full -BackupThreads 10 -Force


    now on the generated backup folder i got many .bak files ranging from 2kb size to 10 GB... also i have noted that for our sharepoint sql databases the "Last Database backup" date will be updates as follow:-



    enter image description here



    so can i conclude that the Backup-SPFarm will mainly do a pure sql databases backups ? also what are the .bak files which have small sizes such as 3 kb ?










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      we have SharePoint enterprise 2013, and i run the following command to do a farm backup:-



      Backup-SPFarm -Directory \****backups -BackupMethod full -BackupThreads 10 -Force


      now on the generated backup folder i got many .bak files ranging from 2kb size to 10 GB... also i have noted that for our sharepoint sql databases the "Last Database backup" date will be updates as follow:-



      enter image description here



      so can i conclude that the Backup-SPFarm will mainly do a pure sql databases backups ? also what are the .bak files which have small sizes such as 3 kb ?










      share|improve this question














      we have SharePoint enterprise 2013, and i run the following command to do a farm backup:-



      Backup-SPFarm -Directory \****backups -BackupMethod full -BackupThreads 10 -Force


      now on the generated backup folder i got many .bak files ranging from 2kb size to 10 GB... also i have noted that for our sharepoint sql databases the "Last Database backup" date will be updates as follow:-



      enter image description here



      so can i conclude that the Backup-SPFarm will mainly do a pure sql databases backups ? also what are the .bak files which have small sizes such as 3 kb ?







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          Backup-SPFarm does a few things:



          • Backups all applicable databases. This also updates the Last Database Backup entry

          • Exports information from the configuration database (which cannot be restored)

          • Backups the search index

          This is why you see smaller files along side your database backups.






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          • ok thanks for your reply. so if we are doing Backup-SPFarm then we do not have to take sql backup from the sql database itself? as we will have redundant data? is this correct?

            – SharePoint TestDev
            Jan 11 at 16:17






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            That's correct, however I usually encourage taking SQL backups and use Backup-SPFarm -ConfigurationOnly instead.

            – Trevor Seward
            Jan 11 at 16:28











          • can i know why you prefer to do it in this way? based on my reading running this command Backup-SPFarm -Directory \****backups -BackupMethod full -BackupThreads 10 -Force will allow us to get a full backup for every setting,configuration and data we have...

            – SharePoint TestDev
            Jan 11 at 16:40











          • In a good number of farms you would use SQL transaction log backups/incremental backups. Using Backup-SPFarm breaks the log chain which causes problems restoring to a particular point in time.

            – Trevor Seward
            Jan 11 at 16:42










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          Backup-SPFarm does a few things:



          • Backups all applicable databases. This also updates the Last Database Backup entry

          • Exports information from the configuration database (which cannot be restored)

          • Backups the search index

          This is why you see smaller files along side your database backups.






          share|improve this answer

























          • ok thanks for your reply. so if we are doing Backup-SPFarm then we do not have to take sql backup from the sql database itself? as we will have redundant data? is this correct?

            – SharePoint TestDev
            Jan 11 at 16:17






          • 1





            That's correct, however I usually encourage taking SQL backups and use Backup-SPFarm -ConfigurationOnly instead.

            – Trevor Seward
            Jan 11 at 16:28











          • can i know why you prefer to do it in this way? based on my reading running this command Backup-SPFarm -Directory \****backups -BackupMethod full -BackupThreads 10 -Force will allow us to get a full backup for every setting,configuration and data we have...

            – SharePoint TestDev
            Jan 11 at 16:40











          • In a good number of farms you would use SQL transaction log backups/incremental backups. Using Backup-SPFarm breaks the log chain which causes problems restoring to a particular point in time.

            – Trevor Seward
            Jan 11 at 16:42















          5














          Backup-SPFarm does a few things:



          • Backups all applicable databases. This also updates the Last Database Backup entry

          • Exports information from the configuration database (which cannot be restored)

          • Backups the search index

          This is why you see smaller files along side your database backups.






          share|improve this answer

























          • ok thanks for your reply. so if we are doing Backup-SPFarm then we do not have to take sql backup from the sql database itself? as we will have redundant data? is this correct?

            – SharePoint TestDev
            Jan 11 at 16:17






          • 1





            That's correct, however I usually encourage taking SQL backups and use Backup-SPFarm -ConfigurationOnly instead.

            – Trevor Seward
            Jan 11 at 16:28











          • can i know why you prefer to do it in this way? based on my reading running this command Backup-SPFarm -Directory \****backups -BackupMethod full -BackupThreads 10 -Force will allow us to get a full backup for every setting,configuration and data we have...

            – SharePoint TestDev
            Jan 11 at 16:40











          • In a good number of farms you would use SQL transaction log backups/incremental backups. Using Backup-SPFarm breaks the log chain which causes problems restoring to a particular point in time.

            – Trevor Seward
            Jan 11 at 16:42













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          Backup-SPFarm does a few things:



          • Backups all applicable databases. This also updates the Last Database Backup entry

          • Exports information from the configuration database (which cannot be restored)

          • Backups the search index

          This is why you see smaller files along side your database backups.






          share|improve this answer















          Backup-SPFarm does a few things:



          • Backups all applicable databases. This also updates the Last Database Backup entry

          • Exports information from the configuration database (which cannot be restored)

          • Backups the search index

          This is why you see smaller files along side your database backups.







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          • ok thanks for your reply. so if we are doing Backup-SPFarm then we do not have to take sql backup from the sql database itself? as we will have redundant data? is this correct?

            – SharePoint TestDev
            Jan 11 at 16:17






          • 1





            That's correct, however I usually encourage taking SQL backups and use Backup-SPFarm -ConfigurationOnly instead.

            – Trevor Seward
            Jan 11 at 16:28











          • can i know why you prefer to do it in this way? based on my reading running this command Backup-SPFarm -Directory \****backups -BackupMethod full -BackupThreads 10 -Force will allow us to get a full backup for every setting,configuration and data we have...

            – SharePoint TestDev
            Jan 11 at 16:40











          • In a good number of farms you would use SQL transaction log backups/incremental backups. Using Backup-SPFarm breaks the log chain which causes problems restoring to a particular point in time.

            – Trevor Seward
            Jan 11 at 16:42

















          • ok thanks for your reply. so if we are doing Backup-SPFarm then we do not have to take sql backup from the sql database itself? as we will have redundant data? is this correct?

            – SharePoint TestDev
            Jan 11 at 16:17






          • 1





            That's correct, however I usually encourage taking SQL backups and use Backup-SPFarm -ConfigurationOnly instead.

            – Trevor Seward
            Jan 11 at 16:28











          • can i know why you prefer to do it in this way? based on my reading running this command Backup-SPFarm -Directory \****backups -BackupMethod full -BackupThreads 10 -Force will allow us to get a full backup for every setting,configuration and data we have...

            – SharePoint TestDev
            Jan 11 at 16:40











          • In a good number of farms you would use SQL transaction log backups/incremental backups. Using Backup-SPFarm breaks the log chain which causes problems restoring to a particular point in time.

            – Trevor Seward
            Jan 11 at 16:42
















          ok thanks for your reply. so if we are doing Backup-SPFarm then we do not have to take sql backup from the sql database itself? as we will have redundant data? is this correct?

          – SharePoint TestDev
          Jan 11 at 16:17





          ok thanks for your reply. so if we are doing Backup-SPFarm then we do not have to take sql backup from the sql database itself? as we will have redundant data? is this correct?

          – SharePoint TestDev
          Jan 11 at 16:17




          1




          1





          That's correct, however I usually encourage taking SQL backups and use Backup-SPFarm -ConfigurationOnly instead.

          – Trevor Seward
          Jan 11 at 16:28





          That's correct, however I usually encourage taking SQL backups and use Backup-SPFarm -ConfigurationOnly instead.

          – Trevor Seward
          Jan 11 at 16:28













          can i know why you prefer to do it in this way? based on my reading running this command Backup-SPFarm -Directory \****backups -BackupMethod full -BackupThreads 10 -Force will allow us to get a full backup for every setting,configuration and data we have...

          – SharePoint TestDev
          Jan 11 at 16:40





          can i know why you prefer to do it in this way? based on my reading running this command Backup-SPFarm -Directory \****backups -BackupMethod full -BackupThreads 10 -Force will allow us to get a full backup for every setting,configuration and data we have...

          – SharePoint TestDev
          Jan 11 at 16:40













          In a good number of farms you would use SQL transaction log backups/incremental backups. Using Backup-SPFarm breaks the log chain which causes problems restoring to a particular point in time.

          – Trevor Seward
          Jan 11 at 16:42





          In a good number of farms you would use SQL transaction log backups/incremental backups. Using Backup-SPFarm breaks the log chain which causes problems restoring to a particular point in time.

          – Trevor Seward
          Jan 11 at 16:42

















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