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you to make the change yourself. This functionality will greatly reduce the burden on
the SharePoint farm administrator who is responsible for maintaining these various
accounts and should prevent unnecessary downtime due to expired accounts.
Backup and Restore
Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010 provides a broad range of levels for performing
backups, including the entire farm, farm configuration information, site collections,
subsites, or lists. Backups can be done by using the Central Administration pages or
Windows PowerShell™. Using the backup and restore features available in SharePoint
Server 2010 gives SharePoint administrators a powerful set of tools that allow them to
manage their environment with minimal downtime and operational costs.
Note Stsadm is still available to perform backups to maintain backward
compatibility. It is recommended that all new backup plans incorporate Windows
PowerShell in place of Stsadm.
Central Administration vs. Windows PowerShell
SharePoint Server 2010 uses two different tools to configure backup and recovery.
Central Administration provides a user interface where SharePoint Administrators will be
prompted via menu structures to select the information that needs to be backed up.
Figure 20: Backup and restore user interface