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--- title: Back up a SharePoint farm to Azure with DPM description: This article provides an overview of DPM/Azure Backup server protection of a SharePoint farm to Azure ms.topic: how-to ms.date: 07/15/2025 ms.service: azure-backup ms.custom: engagement-fy23 author: AbhishekMallick-MS ms.author: v-mallicka # Customer intent: As a SharePoint administrator, I want to back up my SharePoint farm to Azure using a data protection solution, so that I can ensure long-term retention and quick recovery of my critical data. --- # Back up a SharePoint farm to Azure with Data Protection Manager This article describes how to back up and restore SharePoint data using System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM). The backup operation of SharePoint to Azure with DPM is similar to SharePoint backup to DPM locally. System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) enables you back up a SharePoint farm to Microsoft Azure, which gives an experience similar to back up of other data sources. Azure Backup provides flexibility in the backup schedule to create daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly backup points, and gives you retention policy options for various backup points. DPM provides the capability to store local disk copies for quick recovery-time objectives (RTO) and to store copies to Azure for economical, long-term retention. [!INCLUDE [The functionality of Azure Backup trim process.](../../includes/backup-trim-process-notification.md)] ## SharePoint supported scenarios For information on the supported SharePoint versions and the DPM versions required to back them up, see [this article](/system-center/dpm/dpm-protection-matrix#applications-backup). ## Prerequisites Before you proceed to back up a SharePoint farm to Azure, ensure that you've met all the [prerequisites for using Microsoft Azure Backup](backup-azure-dpm-introduction.md#prerequisites-and-limitations) to protect workloads. The tasks in prerequisites also include: create a backup vault, download vault credentials, install Azure Backup agent, and register DPM/Azure Backup Server with the vault. For other prerequisites and limitations, see [Back up SharePoint with DPM](/system-center/dpm/back-up-sharepoint#prerequisites-and-limitations). ## Configure backup To back up the SharePoint farm, configure protection for SharePoint using *ConfigureSharePoint.exe*, and then create a protection group in DPM. See the DPM documentation to learn [how to configure backup](/system-center/dpm/back-up-sharepoint#configure-backup). ## Monitor operations To monitor the backup job, see [Monitoring DPM backup](/system-center/dpm/back-up-sharepoint#monitoring). ## Restore SharePoint data To learn how to restore a SharePoint item from a disk with DPM, see [Restore SharePoint data](/system-center/dpm/back-up-sharepoint#restore-sharepoint-data). ## Restore a SharePoint database from Azure using DPM To recover a SharePoint content database, follow these steps: 1. Browse through various recovery points (as shown previously), and select the recovery point that you want to restore.  2. Double-click the SharePoint recovery point to show the available SharePoint catalog information. > [!NOTE] > Because the SharePoint farm is protected for long-term retention in Azure, no catalog information (metadata) is available on the DPM server. So, whenever a point-in-time SharePoint content database needs to be recovered, you need to catalog the SharePoint farm again. 3. Select **Re-catalog**.  The **Cloud Recatalog** status window opens.  Once the cataloging is finished and the status changes to *Success*, select **Close**.  4. On the DPM **Recovery** tab, select the *SharePoint object* to get the content database structure, right-click the item, and then select **Recover**.  5. To recover a SharePoint content database from disk, see [this section](#restore-sharepoint-data). ## Switch the Front-End Web Server If you've more than one front-end web server, and want to switch the server that DPM uses to protect the farm, see [Switching the Front-End Web Server](/system-center/dpm/back-up-sharepoint#switching-the-front-end-web-server). ## Next steps * [Azure Backup Server and DPM - FAQ](backup-azure-dpm-azure-server-faq.yml) * [Troubleshoot System Center Data Protection Manager](backup-azure-scdpm-troubleshooting.md) ## Related content [Manage backup to Azure for DPM servers via PowerShell](backup-dpm-automation.md).