Restore is the activity to return data from a backup to its original location or to its successor.
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How can I backup and restore a site collection in SP2010?
I have a sharepoint 2010 portal. I have a farm, with inside of it some site collections. One of these site collections ok. I would like to create a new site collection and restore a backup of the old ...
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How do I fully automate Restore-SPFarm?
I have heard that it is a best practice to maintain a QA environment for SharePoint. I would like to script a nightly restore from our production SharePoint 2013 farm, which I'm successfully backing ...
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Deleted site collection missing from recycle bin
We have been having some issues with restoring deleted site collections in our stage and prod 2010 SP1 environments. We have all of the default recycle settings configured, and have enabled the ...
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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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Migrate Sharepoint do a different Server
I have a Sharepoint site with a number of web applications (that are relatively large). I need to decommission the Sharepoint site and database servers and install SharePoint from scratch to a new ...
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Restore SharePoint Web Application on a different Farm
If a perform a web application backup, can I restore it into a compeletely different farm with a different machine name but same sharepoint version?
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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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Roll back deployment stategy and performance testing (2010)
I am currently on the cusp of deploying a solution which will be upgrading existing .wsp solutions and also running a powershell script to upgrade masterpages, content types and page layouts on the ...
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Restore Problem about WSS_Content
I have 2 servers called ahspstest and ahsps01. They are Sharepoint 2013 servers. And a database server called ahsps02. In ahspstest, Sharepoint Server and database Server are together. In ahsps02 ...
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Restore SharePoint 2010 Site Collection to SharePoint 2013?
We are considering moving a single site collection from a SharePoint 2010 box to SharePoint 2013 to take advantage of the difference in licensing for external anonymous users.
Can you do a backup ...
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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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Connect to a Shared Folder on a new computer
I have been using SharePoint Shared Folders as a backup and synching mechanism for my working documents on my laptop. I created a Shared Folder (I called it "Synchronize") for myself and keep all my ...
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Backup root site collection, without subsites, and restore it into one of the subsites in the same site collection? [duplicate]
http://www.site.com (Root site collection) http://www.site.com/sites/subsiteA (First sub site collection) http://www.site.com/sites/subsiteB (Second sub site collection)
I need command only to take ...
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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 2013 restore question
I have a backup of a web application created on a 2010 farm... can i restore that backup on a 2013 farm???
What I mean is will it work or fail without damaging anything???
Because somethings just say ...
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SharePoint timer service for backup/restore
for performing backups, SharePoint timer service should have read/write permission. How i check if SharePoint timer service have read/write permission?
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what is Backup file location
I want to configure default backup and restore settings. I don't know what backup location should I use? I use this location: \\myserver\myfolder is that correct?
I got following error:
Directory ...
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How to import a library from Export-SPWeb outputs?
I am trying to understand how to restore an arbitrary library to an arbitrary site in an arbitary site collection - inspired by some future user announcing he accidentally deleted a document from the ...
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farm backup and restore - Only metadata fails everything else is fine
I did a full backup from production. and kicked of a restore to a dev farm. Everything went smoothly except the managed metadata piece. How do I go by fixing this so I dont get this?
here is the ...
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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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How to find the exact time of restore completion of a site backup
This is a very basic question. When we restore a site backup in SharePoint , does SharePoint logs the date time of the completion activity after it has successfully completed. In the powershell it ...
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Restore-SPSite time scale to restore?
I am trying to restore the main site at the root of our SharePoint server after an accidental deletion using the following code:
Restore-SPSite -Identity http://server -Path "B:\SharePoint\11-12-2012 ...
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Unable to expand list view selector
I have restored a SharePoint - 80 application backup on a new server and mapped the existing domain name to this server.
The default list view selector does not show the available pre-defined ...
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Can't restore backup of content database using stsadm after migration to SQL 2008 R2
WSS 3.0 on Server 2003 within a Domain.
I set the server up 3.5 years ago along with a test setup. It's the first and only SharePoint install. I recently had to migrate the content database from ...
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Restore-SPSite running forever
I'm trying to restore SPSite from backup.
But powershell Restore-SPSite command keeps running forever.
What can be the reason for this?
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Thoughts about deployment via Site Collection backup-restore
I wonder sharepoint experts ideas about deployment of sharepoint projects/portals via site collection backup & restore, instead of visual studio solutions?
Especially for the projects that will ...
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SharePoint Release Management Testing and Roll back
I'm putting together a release process for our SharePoint 2007 environment. We have admins and power users who have to make out of the box changes to sites via the browser. Only one admin who can make ...
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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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Making identical copy of a server as a standalone for testing
I'm currently trying to make a "copy/clone" of a production server as a standalone one I can run on my laptop. I want the production and my own sharepoint server versions to be the same so that I can ...
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Root Site collection is missing on restoration of SharePoint Backup File
3 to 4 document library's got accidently deleted. I restored the content DB however, after restoration I encountered the following issue:
Root site collection ("/") not available on the restoration. ...
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Restore SharePoint Farm in Same Configuration Mode
Is it possible to use the Same configuration mode when restoring a full farm backup on another SharePoint server (with a different "hostname")? Or, is it necessary to use the "New configuration" mode ...
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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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Attaching and restoring document library files from a .mdf config database file?
We have a Symantec backup system that runs through all of the instances on a SQL2008 box and backsup data,
I would like to restore a corrupted document library and am wondering as to how I would ...
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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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Unable to view restored site pages
I made a prototype of the SharePoint 2010 site in via the VirtualBox machine. I have successfully made a backup of the entire farm (all elements are backuped without errors).
After that I have ...
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Restore-SPSite fails without any useful error
I'm trying to restore from a backup via PowerShell with the following commands:
add-pssnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell
restore-spsite -Force -Confirm:$false -Identity ...
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Backup Restore SharePOint Site Collection
I have about 20 site collections in a web application and i want to restore those into a new web application . Can some one suggest me whats the best approach to do this ..
I have tried the following ...
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Mount-SPContentDatabase error
I have recieved a copied database from a live farm and am trying to restore this database to my development environment. I have created a new web application and site collection and have restored the ...
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How to move a SharePoint 2007 site with workflow
With only access to SharePoint Designer tool and access to two SP 2007 sites, one is Production and another going to be the TEST, I want to make a copy of the production site, which contains ...
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PowerShell to backup a Web application
I need a PowerShell script which could perform the following:
How to Back up and Content Database of a Web Application
Restore a Content Database on a newly created Web Application
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Site collection locked out after changing permissions in a list available in a subsite
I am getting weird issues, while restoring SP2010 sub-site from our old SP2010 farm to new farm through a full backup. The subsite on old farm had unique permissions. As well as the lists inside the ...
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Security Permissions broke while restoring the site on a new farm
I got a problem while restoring SP2010 sub-site from our old SP2010 farm to new farm through a full backup. The subsite on old farm had unique permissions. As well as the lists inside the sub-site ...
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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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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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Restore User Profile Data to another farm
I've been setting up a test farm for a customer where I'll be looking to restore the UPSA databases from production, mainly the profile one, there isn't too much else I'm interested in other than ...
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Move database without creating alias
when we started with Sharepoint we installed everything on a sqlserver that was used for non-sharepoint activities to. Now however we decided to seperate those from each other. Management decided that ...
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Site Blank After Connecting To Old Content Database
I recently had to reinstall SharePoint and recreate my server farm and sites.
Before I reinstalled everything I made backups of my populated content databases.
Everything has been reinstalled and ...
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restoring a site collection database
In my attempt to restore a production site collection to dev I forgot 1 step and now it's hanging.
I went to DB server on the DEV and deleted the DB without going to Central admin and delete the ...
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Error: The file or folder name contains characters that are not permitted. Please use a different name
I took backup from our staging server and restored on my local development machine. My Powershell script is not raising any error while restoration. But when I open the site in browser, it's giving me ...
