A backup or the process of backing up is making copies of data which may be used to restore the original after a data loss event.
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SharePoint restore fails because of newer version
I have installed SharePoint 2010 SP1 on my local developer machine.
I wanted to copy a site collection from one of our productive servers (which hasn't SP1 yet but the December 2010 Cumulative ...
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Restoring Infopath Workflow metadata
We have problems with regards to backing up workflow status data, that we have been trying to solve for about a year now.
The situation:
After restoring individual InfoPath forms the workflow status ...
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do SharePoint backups include permissions?
I have found one problem thatwe are having a problem here that permissions being inadvertently wiped out after restore.
do SharePoint backups include permissions?
How can i restore site including ...
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Why not back up whole server?
I apologize if this is already answered somewhere but I couldn't find it.
I'm a bit of a newbie here; I'm wondering if it's possible to simply do a full-system backup instead of having to do any ...
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PowerShell cleaner script work badly after New Year?
I have strange situation with PowerShell script which delete older Backup Files in SharePoint Backup Folder. I use two PowerShell script, first make Backup Farm and second check Folder with Backup and ...
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Does Backup / Restore of a root site collection url include other site collection contents
I have a question regarding multiple site collections in a single web application. Take the following structure;
http://www.site.com (Root site collection)
http://www.site.com/sites/subsiteA (First ...
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Restoring a Document Library's content from a backup?
I have a sharepoint server backup and a database backup of the SQL2008 server which holds the sharepoint database.
Some infopath forms were deleted from the document library and I would like to ...
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How to determine SharePoint version used during backup creation in order to restore it?
I have a SC backup, but when trying to restore it on my test environment with PowerShell, got the following error: SharePoint server version mismatch. SharePoint versions on both servers should match. ...
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SharePoint 2010 Backup Restoration Metadata Tags Issue
I am facing problem in my SharePoint 2010 environment for the backup-restoration of site collection backup's. I have some metadata fields in my list/libraries. whenever I do restore the backup on new ...
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Restoring site from another server doesn't seem to copy permissions
I have backed up a site, from development box, and restored it to another, live, server. Everything seems to have been copied correctly. The site looks the same, and when I look in the permissions, I, ...
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Stsadm restore issue
I try to restore Sharepoint 2007 site using STSAdm but the previous operation failed , I checked the event viewer and found the following information :
Faulting application mssdmn.exe, version ...
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how to maintain a SharePoint server?
I am using SharePoint Server 2007 + Windows Server 2008. I want to know whether there are any existing best practices or tools to maintain a SharePoint server, for example how to monitor SharePoint ...
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o365 A2 safe bet for our SharePoint 2013 production farm?
While we build our on-prem SP 2013 we are playing with free o365 A2.
We have about 2TB of production content and about 5000 acitve users, with a potential 20,000 users.
Maybe 500 users using ...
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Restore Site Collection From Farm Backup
We are planning to implement a backup-restore process for our SharePoint farm and i have couple of questions and i would greatly appreciate if someone helps me with that
Our Environment : I am ...
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SharePoint Farm backup or Site Collection backup
We are in the process of moving our Sharepoint VM instance from one DC to the other.But
i would like to have some backup before the move.
They are requesting to clone the server.
Anyways whats the ...
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Restored infopath forms still opening using the new template.xsn?
I did a site restore from an unattached database in order to get back all of my old infopath forms held in a document library. Reason being that I had modified (deleted and replaced with new fields) ...
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Backup-SPFarm or Backup-SPSite to backup a site collection and it's content database
Should I use Backup-SPFarm or Backup-SPSite to backup a site collection with it's content database? Dont both of them backs up with it's content database?
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SP Backup but without any items in the library or list
Is it possible to perform a backup (either SharePoint backup or sql backup) without any items that are in man-made lists and libraries?
I saw a feature in Metalogix tools where you can copy a site ...
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restoring full farm backup does not show sites
I have backed up my sharepoint trial server and uninstall it. then reinstalled it from scratch and restored from the backup.
however, when I try to go to sites, or subsites, I get
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
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SharePoint 2010 Farm Backup and the User Profile Service
Every night we run a farm backup via PowerShell Script, but after that the User Profile Service is unprovisioned. I've found this article:
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Restore sharepoint 2010 web application on different domain
We made a backup of a web application through the central administration to move it to a different server on a different domain and it's a domain controller actually.
So we made a restore operation ...
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How to backup and restore a web application and/or site collection
I am trying to find the best way to accomplish the following:
Move an existing share point application's content and meta databases, back them up and restore them to a different machine.
In order to ...
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How to replicate site collections on the same web application?
I need to create a copy of publishing(Collobaration Portal) site collection on the same web application. I can do this by using backup/restore, but the problem is when we restore the same site ...
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Farm Backup vs Granular Backup - SP 2010
I am using SharePoint 2010 and I only have 1 Site Collection.
In my CA I can do a Farm Backup or a Granular Backup.
What must I used, I just want to make a full backup of everything including all ...
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Back-out plan for cumulative updates
I was wondering how your back-out plans look like. Untill now I must admit I never have had a really decent back-out plan in place when installing cumulative updates. I did ran into some issues ...
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SharePoint 2010 backup: differential size almost as big as full
My question is similar to this one except my full and differentials do not happen as often. I do a full once a week and a differential on weekday evenings. My differential backups at the beginning ...
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Wikipages empty after restore from backup
We run our intranet on SharePoint 2010. We have several web applications and we use DocAve 5 to backup the content of our intranet. After a user reported that he had erroneously deleted a wiki page ...
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Remote PowerShell Script
I have server 1 (application that the script) (dax-sp) and server 2 (sharepoint) (sp-sp)
Script on server 1 (ScriptStart.ps1)
Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Shell\MaxMemoryPerShellMB 2000
$pwd = ...
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hosted sharepoint backup [duplicate]
I have a hosted sharepoint site that I want to make a backup of
Currently I have a script that connects to the site (and subsites) via webdav and downloads all the documents. This however doesn't ...
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Get-SPSite fails to return all site collections for a content database
I have 3 content databases spread over 2 servers (A & B) called:
A1
B1
B2
I wanted to move a site collection from A1 to B1. As they are on different servers, I backed up, removed the site and ...
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Backup and Restore Sitecollection: users on target machine not existing
I backed up a sitecollection from Server A and restored that sitecollection to server B using stsadm backup and stsadm restore.
Before the backup I removed the users from the sitecollection user ...
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Sharepoint foundation 2010 backup in a single server deployment
We have a single server sharepoint foundation 2010 installation and I'm wondering what would be the best backup/restore plan.
I need to be able to move the content to a new SP installation or restore ...
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My SharePoint 2007 backup keeps failing
The steps I took were by the book (Building Office 2007 Solutions in C# 2005 specifically):
verified user service account permissions. In my case the same
SPConfigUser is used at all levels of the ...
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Advantage of SharePoint aware mirroring compared to normal SQL mirroring?
We are going to implement mirroring for our databases in order to increase the data redundancy. Our understanding is that SQL clustering won't help for this. Can someone please explain for me why we ...
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SharePoint 2010 - Export sites as template with the GUI -> ERROR
I want to export a SharePoint site with the GUI.
I tried the two options, with and without content. But both ways are not working.
When I export a site, a correlation id is displayed.
What is the ...
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Content database does not exist restoring a site collection
I am using SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. And I am using publishing portal template. I am using the following backup and restore process to backup from site ...
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SharePoint 2010: What is the difference between backing up a Site Collection and exporting a Site Collection?
Lectori salutem,
I am reading into backup and restore operations in SharePoint 2010. I have noticed that in Central Administration > Backup and Restore > Granular Backup there is the possibility to ...
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What equipment is needed for test SharePoint environment?
I am not really experienced in SharePoint beyond managing site content. Right now we only have a live SharePoint environment with two servers, one for SQL, and the other server for everything else. ...
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How to copy site collection to another server
I have a big corporate portal (on SharePonit 2010) and now I want to make a copy of it for my tests. So the problem is how make a copy of portal (maybe without documemts) from http://server1 to ...
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Restore backup from another version of SharePoint Server
I created a backup of Site Collection in one server. I want to restore this backup to my development server. I'm using stsadm:
stsadm -o restore -url http://myserver:9999/sites/001 -filename ...
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What exactly is the content in “Back up content and configuration settings”?
In Central Administration for SharePoint 2010 when one runs a full farm back up there is an option that allows the user to back up content and configuration settings or just the configuration ...
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SharePoint 2007 Changing of Site Collection URL
I want to change the URL of Site Collection _http://teamnet.com/old to _http://teamnet.com/new.
I found some solution to do the changing of URL via
backing up the site collection
stsadm -o backup ...
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SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Planning
We are going to be undertaking a disaster test and will need to be able to bring up our SharePoint 2007 farm in a new environment. The farm consists of one WFE and one Index server. There are about 10 ...
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Can you backup a site collection structure but not include the content?
I have a very large site collection with 10,000s of documents. I want to create a copy of the site collection but not necessarily all of the content. Is there a good way to make a cop of a site ...
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Sharepoint backup methods?
I currently do indiidual site collection (6) backups on my sharepoint site.
What are some of the best autmoized methods to backup a sharepoint site (site collections and sites with content)?
For ...
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Sharepoint Farm Backup - restore one web application only
If you have a farm backup. How can you restore just one site or site collection using powershell / central administration please?
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Backup Sharepoint Server site and restore onto Sharepoint Foundation
I do not know the below is possible...
We have a Production environment that has Sharepoint Server 2010 and a Test Environment that has Sharepoint Foundation 2010.
I would like to do one test on the ...
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Restore site collections with other web application
Scenario:
SP 2007 stand-alone farm
Content_DB full backup
I'd like to know wheather for restoring a site collec., instead of using a recovery farm., I could better use a new web app in the same ...
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Unable to Restore File From Backup - Compatibility Range Mismatch
Late last month, I created a site collection backup via Granular Backup in Central Administration. In that time, one of our users has overwritten a file that now needs to be recovered from a document ...
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Different Version Problems in Restoring Sharepoint Sİte [closed]
I'm trying to move a Sharepoint site from one Sharepoint 2010 server to another.
I used the Backup-SPSite cmdlet to create a backup file.
It gives the error below after I try to restore with the ...
