how can I backup my SCCM server

anyweb · March 19, 2009

This guide assumes you are backing up an SCCM Primary Site Server, backing up a Secondary Site Server is not supported.

You should always refer to Technet for best practise advise for troubleshooting, setup and maintenance of your SCCM server(s). this guide is provided as-is to help you understand the backup functionality within SCCM better and to get it working in your LAB environment, for proper guidance, refer to Technet.

Create a folder for storing the data

In Windows Explorer create a folder (or share on another computer *recommended) for storing our backup data

eg: D:\sources\backup or \\server\someshare

Create a scheduled backup task

To create a scheduled backup task, expand the Site Settings node and expand the Site Maintenance node, click on Tasks.

Right click on the Backup ConfigMgr Site Server task and choose properties. Set your schedule values and enable the task.

What Gets Backed up ?

According to Microsoft the following gets backed up:

What Gets Backed Up
In order to completely back up a Configuration Manager 2007 site server, the following data needs to be included in the backup:

* The Configuration Manager site database (SQL Server database)

* Configuration Manager installation directory on the site server

* Master site control file (.\Inboxes\Sitectrl.box\Sitectrl.ct0)

* SMS and NAL registry keys on the site server

What Does Not Get Backed Up

Some Configuration Manager 2007 site systems contain site data that is easily recreated if the site fails and are not backed up during the site backup process. For example, there is no need to backup data from site systems such as standard and branch distribution points, management points, reporting points, and server locator points. These site systems can easily be reinstalled by the site server if they fail.The Backup ConfigMgr Site Server maintenance task backs up logs located in the Configuration Manager logs directory, but some Configuration Manager 2007 site systems write logs in other locations and are not backed up by the Backup ConfigMgr Site Server maintenance task. You should plan an alternative method to back up these logs if required.It is not necessary to back up the SQL Server master database when backing up the Configuration Manager site database. The Backup ConfigMgr Site Server maintenance task backs up all of the required information for restoring the site from the SQL Server hosting the site database as part of the backup process. The original SQL Server master database is not required for restoring the site database on a new SQL database server.Backing up Configuration Manager 2007 clients are not backed up as part of the site backup process for the following reasons:

* To properly back up a Configuration Manager client, the client services must be stopped. However, there is no reliable way to stop and start the client services. Stopping and starting the client services can potentially corrupt the data on the clientï¿½s disk or in the backup snapshot.

* Clients are too numerous. It is neither practical nor beneficial to backup and restore the clients assigned to a site.

* The effect of losing client data is relatively small.

What the above doesn't tell you is that you need to backup the following (using whatever other traditional backup method you have).

Using traditional backup routines (like DPM), backup the Following folders (assuming you have all your packages on D:\ if not, backup the corresponding folders on C:\ etc:-

SMSSIG$

SMSPKGSIG

SMSPKGD$

In other words, if you want everything backed up, you will need to backup ALL packages on ALL distribution Points you have setup, including the Package source folders using traditional backup methods (DPM etc).

How can I Restore my site Backup

You can restore your site backup using the Site Repair wizard, either by running splash.hta from the SCCM 2007 DVD or by selecting it from the Start Menu.

How can I Restore Packages

To restore packages you can use preloadpkgonsite.exe

How can I manually start a backup ?

Open up Administrative tools/Services and locate a service called SMS_SITE_BACKUP, select the service, right click and choose Start.

At this point the SMS site backup should start, refer to the smsbkup.log file (located in D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Configuration Manager\Logs) for details such as

SMS site backup service 4.00 started.

and

04/30/09 17:52:28 - starting backup.

and of course you'll want to see that it completed successfully

04/30/09 18:02:56 - backup completed.

Some Backup related reading

3 Things I learnt about SCCM backups

http://myitforum.com...cm-backups.aspx

Site Restore Step by Step

http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2012/06/07/configmgr-sccm-recovery-restore-site-repair-wizard-step-by-step-guide/

Volume shadow copy service

If you want to find out how ConfigMgr uses the Volume shadow copy service see here

Dom · May 11, 2010

This guide assumes you are backing up an SCCM Primary Site Server, backing up a Secondary Site Server is not supported.

You should always refer to Technet for best practise advise for troubleshooting, setup and maintenance of your SCCM server(s). this guide is provided as-is to help you understand the backup functionality within SCCM better and to get it working in your LAB environment, for proper guidance, refer to Technet.

Create a folder for storing the data

In Windows Explorer create a folder for storing our backup data

eg: D:\sources\backup

Create a scheduled backup task

To create a scheduled backup task, expand the Site Settings node and expand the Site Maintenance node, click on Tasks.

Right click on the Backup ConfigMgr Site Server task and choose properties. Set your schedule values and enable the task.

What Gets Backed up ?

According to Microsoft the following gets backed up:

What Does Not Get Backed Up

What the above doesn't tell you is that you need to backup the following (using whatever other traditional backup method you have).

Using traditional backup routines (like DPM), backup the Following folders (assuming you have all your packages on D:\ if not, backup the corresponding folders on C:\ etc:-

SMSSIG$

SMSPKGSIG

SMSPKGD$

In other words, if you want everything backed up, you will need to backup ALL packages on ALL distribution Points you have setup, including the Package source folders using traditional backup methods (DPM etc).

How can I Restore my site Backup

You can restore your site backup using the Site Repair wizard, either by running splash.hta from the SCCM 2007 DVD or by selecting it from the Start Menu.

How can I Restore Packages

To restore packages you can use preloadpkgonsite.exe

How can I manually start a backup ?

Open up Administrative tools/Services and locate a service called SMS_SITE_BACKUP, select the service, right click and choose Start.

At this point the SMS site backup should start, refer to the smsbkup.log file (located in D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Configuration Manager\Logs) for details such as

and

and of course you'll want to see that it completed successfully

Some Backup related reading

3 Things I learnt about SCCM backups

http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/scassells/archive/2009/11/16/three-things-i-learned-about-sccm-backups.aspx

Volume shadow copy service

If you want to find out how ConfigMgr uses the Volume shadow copy service see here

Hello,

After setting this up it seems the Task: "Backup Configmgr Site Server" does not start by itself.

Site Status > Component Status > SMS_SITE_BACKUP is in Manual Statup Type

The SMS_SITE_BACKUP service is not running and it is set to "Manual"

Should it be automatically changed to Scheduled and the service Started or should it be done manually?

Thanks,

DOm

anyweb · May 12, 2010

it will remain set to Manual, but your scheduled backup will take place, verify by looking at the backup logs and check the location of where you told it to backup to

J0rgeb · June 4, 2010

How I can restore a backup of site server to new hardware, on my network I have:

01 Site Server

01 Reporting Server y Fallback Status Point.

03 Distribution Point.

01 Site Database.

Please i need a step by step procedure.

binarymime · October 21, 2011

I am recieving some type of SQL error when attempting a site backup on our primary site, i dont understand why this is not working. Any help would be appreciated. I have posted the log below:

10/16/11 00:12:24 - starting backup. SMS_SITE_BACKUP 10/16/2011 12:12:24 AM 2936 (0x0B78)

BackupDir = E:\SCCM_SITE_BACKUP. SMS_SITE_BACKUP 10/16/2011 12:12:25 AM 2936 (0x0B78)

Installation RootDir = E:\MICROSOFT CONFIGURATION MANAGER. SMS_SITE_BACKUP 10/16/2011 12:12:25 AM 2936 (0x0B78)

Site SQL Dir = \\HZSD-SQL-B\C$\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT SQL SERVER\MSSQL10.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\. SMS_SITE_BACKUP 10/16/2011 12:12:25 AM 2936 (0x0B78)

Warning: Backup location and the sms data (installation directory) are on the same volume. Sms Backup creates snapshot of the volume using VSS services and then copies the data to the backup location. It is advisable to have the backup location on a different volume (different than the one that has SMS data and SMS database files), so that the writes to the volume is minimal when the volume snapshot is active. SMS_SITE_BACKUP 10/16/2011 12:12:25 AM 2936 (0x0B78)

Site Backup Location = \\hzsd-sccm-a\SCCM_Site_Backup SMS_SITE_BACKUP 10/16/2011 12:12:25 AM 2936 (0x0B78)

SQL Backup Location = \\hzsd-sccm-a\SCCM_Site_Backup SMS_SITE_BACKUP 10/16/2011 12:12:25 AM 2936 (0x0B78)

STATMSG: ID=5055 SEV=I LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_SITE_BACKUP" SYS=HZSD-SCCM-A SITE=548 PID=4472 TID=2936 GMTDATE=Sun Oct 16 06:12:25.011 2011 ISTR0="" ISTR1="" ISTR2="" ISTR3="" ISTR4="" ISTR5="" ISTR6="" ISTR7="" ISTR8="" ISTR9="" NUMATTRS=0 SMS_SITE_BACKUP 10/16/2011 12:12:25 AM 2936 (0x0B78)

LogEvent(): Successfully logged Event to NT Event Log. (4 - 48 - 1,073,746,879) SMS_SITE_BACKUP 10/16/2011 12:12:25 AM 2936 (0x0B78)

Starting VSS initialization... SMS_SITE_BACKUP 10/16/2011 12:12:25 AM 2936 (0x0B78)

Starting Asynchronous GatherWriterMetadata. SMS_SITE_BACKUP 10/16/2011 12:12:25 AM 2936 (0x0B78)

Number of writers that responded: 19. SMS_SITE_BACKUP 10/16/2011 12:12:26 AM 2936 (0x0B78)

Reading SMS Writer metadata... SMS_SITE_BACKUP 10/16/2011 12:12:26 AM 2936 (0x0B78)

Number of FileIncludes: 0. SMS_SITE_BACKUP 10/16/2011 12:12:26 AM 2936 (0x0B78)

Number of FileExcludes: 0. SMS_SITE_BACKUP 10/16/2011 12:12:26 AM 2936 (0x0B78)

Number of Components: 7. SMS_SITE_BACKUP 10/16/2011 12:12:26 AM 2936 (0x0B78)

Component 0 - 548Backup\SiteServer\SMSServer\inboxes. SMS_SITE_BACKUP 10/16/2011 12:12:26 AM 2936 (0x0B78)

FileGroupFile = E:\MICROSOFT CONFIGURATION MANAGER\INBOXES\* [Recursive: yes] SMS_SITE_BACKUP 10/16/2011 12:12:26 AM 2936 (0x0B78)