Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.Backup Namespace

Provides types and members for performing backup and restore operations on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 sites.

Four types of built-in components can be backed up and restored with the classes of this namespace: the entire farm, content publishing Web services, Web applications, and content databases. You also can create new content types that can be backed up and restored by implementing the IBackupRestore interface.

You can use the classes in Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment to create backups and restorations of individual site collections and Web sites.

Classes

	Class	Description
	SPBackupInformation	Provides information about a backup operation, such as the location of the backup device.
	SPBackupRestoreConfigurationSettings	Represents some farm wide settings used in backup and restore operations.
	SPBackupRestoreConsole	Provides static methods for running and managing backup and restore operations.
	SPBackupRestoreConsoleObject	Represents a particular backup or restore operation.
	SPBackupRestoreHistoryList	A list of past backup and restore operations (including those that failed or were cancelled before finishing) for a particular backup location.
	SPBackupRestoreHistoryObject	Represents a single current or past backup or restore operation.
	SPBackupRestoreInformation	Provides information about a backup or restore job that is running or has just completed.
	SPBackupRestoreObject	Provides helper functions for backup and restore operations and acts as a container for an SPBackupRestoreInformation object and its correlated IBackupRestore object.
	SPBackupRestoreObjectCollection	Represents a collection of SPBackupRestoreObjectCollection objects.
	SPBackupRestoreSettings	Stores a pattern of settings for a backup or restore operation.
	SPBackupSettings	Represents the configuration settings for a backup operation, including the number of threads to use.
	SPRestoreEventArgs	Provides data for handling an ObjectsRestored event.
	SPRestoreInformation	Provides information about a restore operation that is currently underway or just completed.
	SPRestoreSettings	Represents the configuration settings for a restore operation. The settings include the method of restoration, the backup to be restored, and farm logon information.
	SPVssComponentDefinition	Provides information about a custom, non-database, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 content component to the Windows SharePoint Services VSS Writer service.
	SPVssDiscoveryHelper	Enables custom types of non-database content components to be protected by Volume Shadow Service.

Interfaces

	Interface	Description
	IBackupRestore	Enables the content that a class represents to be backed up and restored.
	IBackupRestoreTreeFormatter	Formats, for use in a UI, a tree presentation of the components on the farm that can be backed up.

Delegates

	Delegate	Description
	SPRestoreCompleteEventHandler	Represents the method that will handle the ObjectsRestored event of an SPFarm.

Enumerations

	Enumeration	Description
	SPBackupMethodType	Specifies whether all content or only changed content is backed up.
	SPBackupRestoreLogSeverity	Specifies the severity of an issue that occurs during a backup or restore operation and is logged with a message.
	SPBackupRestorePhaseType	Specifies what stage in a backup or restore operation is currently underway.
	SPRestoreMethodType	Specifies whether only content that does not already exist in the restore target is restored from the backup object or whether content with the same name as in the backup object is also overwritten.
	SPRestoreType	Specifies whether a site collection or a content component larger than a site collection; that is, a farm, Web service, Web application, or content database; is restored.