You can back up the complete SharePoint Farm data on your client computer, and restore the data when required.
Types of Backup
The following backup types are available through the SharePoint Server Agent:
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Differential (For content databases it is a transaction log backup, for other SharePoint components it is a differential backup.)
Supported Backups
The SharePoint Server Agent supports backup of the following components:
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Farm Components
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Content Databases
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Web Applications
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Service Applications
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BLOBs
Unsupported Backups
The SharePoint Server Agent does not support backup operations of Web Front End data like SharePoint hive, IIS settings and SharePoint registry entries.
To perform backup of the above components along with farm, create a pseudo client.
For more information, see Creating a Pseudo Client.