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Chapter 5 ■ Health Monitoring and Disaster Recovery■ ■Note When backing up content, backup files typically consume 1.5 times as much space as the originalcontent databases.4. Check the check box next to the Farm level, and then click the Next button.5. Figure 5-17 shows the next page, where you specify the backup type.Figure 5-17. Select farm backup optionsIf you provided a UNC path for backups in the backup settings (earlier), then SharePoint suggests this location inthe Backup Options page (Figure 5-17). If you didn’t, there is no need to worry; just provide it now.SharePoint provides you with a helpful summary of the running services, required for a farm backup, whichinclude the timer service and administration service. The Backup Component section reminds you what you selectedin the previous screen.1. Select the backup type as either Full or Differential.A full backup is exactly that—SharePoint backs up everything. Differential backups run much smaller and faster,but they only back up changes since the last full backup. Consider the restore process when choosing the backuptypes. Full backup restores are easier but take longer than differential, which require multiple restores of the variousdifferential backups to get the system current after a disaster.128www.it-ebooks.info