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.
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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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