Powershell Script for taking Farm backup in SP 2013

Question

Is there any ready made farm backup script available?I want to take the backup of my SP 2013 farm which has 2 WFEs,1 Index server and 1 Sql Server. I want to take the complete content residing in the content databases/site collections.

Answer 1

The command below always helped me to take backup of entire farm.

Backup-SPFarm -Directory C:\Backup -BackupMethod full -BackupThreads 10 -Force

Source: here and here

If you want a script which will take backup regularly, I'll suggest you to check this script. It's for SharePoint 2010 but I don't see any reason for it to not work with SharePoint 2013, though please check once.

Note: Backup-SPFarm command use a network share drive so please make sure that the service accounts, Farm accounts and SQL Server service accounts have Full Control access to the share drive.