Microsoft SharePoint (on-premises)

The NGBackup SharePoint Plugin delivers consistent, farm-wide protection for on-premises Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016, 2019 and Subscription Edition (all editions). It backs up content databases through SQL Server with COPY_ONLY, CHECKSUM semantics — natively or by delegating to the NGBackup MSSQL engine for VDI striping and incremental levels — while capturing the farm configuration with Backup-SPFarm and a self-describing topology snapshot.

Highlights

• Consistent farm capture — content DBs via SQL Server (COPY_ONLY so the farm’s own backup chain is never broken), configuration database and farm metadata alongside.
• Granular index at backup time — a browseable NDJSON index of site collections, webs, lists and items is recorded with every backup.
• Zero-downtime granular recovery — restores use Microsoft’s supported unattached content database path: single sites, subsites, lists or individual items can be recovered to their original location or to an alternate URL, without touching the live farm.
• Full-farm and content-database restores equally supported, with staged RESTORE-NEXT-STEPS.ps1 runbooks generated per scope.

FileSet example

FileSet {
  Name = "sharepoint-farm"
  Include {
    Options { Signature = SHA256 }
    Plugin = "sharepoint: farm=SP-FARM contentdb=WSS_Content_* include_config=yes"
  }
}

Supported platforms

Component	Versions
SharePoint Server	2016, 2019, Subscription Edition — Foundation, Standard and Enterprise editions
SQL Server backend	any version supported by the MSSQL plugin
Host OS	Windows Server 2016 and later

See the plugin README in the distribution for the full option table and current release-phase notes.