Thursday, May 17, 2012

How to back up a User Profile Service application using SQL Server in SharePoint 2010 ?

  • Open SQL Server Management Studio
  • Connect to the database server.
  • Expand Databases.
  • Right-click the database that you want to back up, point to Tasks
  • Then click Back Up.
  • In the Back up Database dialog box,
  • In the Source area, select the backup type that you want to perform
  • User Profile Service application always requires a full backup, so select Full backup
  • In the Backup component area, click Database.
  • Provide the name to the backup
  • We can set an expiration date to make this back up available till desired date.
  • By default its 0, means no expiration date
  • Provide the path where you want to store this back up under Destination
  • That’s it we are done with user profile backup

A very good article available @ http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg576965

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