# Difference between Granular Backup and Farm Backup

- Link: https://sharepointtechnicalsupport.com/2015/05/05/difference-between-granular-backup-farm-backup/
- Published: 2015-05-05T08:27:23+05:30
- Author: Deviprasad Panda

**Granular Backup:**

 * Granular backup is used for backing up a specific sharepoint entity, like a site
   collection, web or a list.
 * Granular has two main types which are site collections and Web site or list.
 * These backup mainly focuses on single content database.
 * Granular backups are content backups that work on the site collection, website,
   or list level.
 * These backups can be performed using Central Administration, STSADM, or PowerShell
   commands.
 * But it is not recommended to run site collection backups if your site collection
   is larger than
    around 15 GB.

**Farm Backup:**

 * The Farm Backup alternative is meant to be used in the scenario you describes:
   When you want to backup everything in the farm in one backup.
 * These are bascially towards web farms and web application levels.
 * These are basically into farm configurations, solution packages, web applications,
   service applications, whole content databases etc.
 * These backups can be performed using Central Administration, STSADM, or PowerShell
   commands.

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