SharePoint 2013 Backup Farm Automatically With a Powershell and Windows Task Schedule

In this post,I will show you SharePoint 2013 How to Backup Farm Automatically with a PowerShell and Windows Task Schedule.

First,to backup your Farm,you can use the powershell command Backup-SPFarm.

You can use the command to backup the farm a Full backup as in the following example.

Backup-SPFarm -BackupMethod Full -Directory D:\backup
And to Backup the farm a differential backup,you can use the command as in the following example.
Backup-SPFarm -BackupMethod Differential -Directory D:\backup
So Let's Create two PowreShell Script File,One for the full backup and another for the differential backup.

Step 1:Create a PowerShell for the full farm backup

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Force
Backup-SPFarm -BackupMethod Full -Directory D:\backup
Save the file and name SPFarmFullBackup.ps1

Step 2:Create a PowerShell for the differential farm backup

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Force
Backup-SPFarm -BackupMethod Differential -Directory D:\backup
Save the file and name SPFarmDiffBackup.ps1
Now,follow the steps below to create the tasks for Task Schedule to automate the execution of backup files.Assume we will full-backup weekly and differerntial-backup daily.

Step 3: Schedule a batch file to Run Automatically

Click On Start

Select "任务计划程序"

In the center pane,right-click ,and click "创建基本任务"



Assigning the task a meaningful name-such as SharePoint-BackupFarmFullWeekly



Choose "每周"



Specific the parameters for the weekly task schedule

Next Choose "启动程序"



Type in the command as the screenshot below



The Task scheduler is intelligent enough to recognize that you want to run PowerShell and that you supplied arguments



Now,that we have created a Task,we have to make sure it runs highest Privilege. we have to make sure that when you run the file it not should fail.

Right Click the task you just created and Select Property

Click on "使用最高权限运行" then click OK.



Repeate the steps above to create a diff-backup task schedule