Hi there,
I am preparing a plan to backup my on-premise SharePoint 2013 environment. In a process, I getting confused between SharePoint backup and SQL tool. I know the limitation that using SQL tool I cannot backup my farm completely. However I am not sure about out of box SharePoint back up tool functionality much. Can I restore a complete farm using SharePoint backup tool. Lets say I have share point farm and if I performed a full share point farm back, would I be able to restore in to create another farm on another physical servers or will it only work on existing share point farm. In the same way what if I use share point backup tool to backup service applications like user profile,search,bdc would I be able to restore them on another farm or it will only work on existing farm.
Also could you please let us know which tool/method out of the the above (share point backup or SQL backup) is recommended or would be better to backup my share point farm.