Restore is the activity to return data from a backup to its original location or to its successor.
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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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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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How can I restore Sharepoint web app when the DB is in another server?
I have the following situation:
I have a Sharepoint application where the data and app are in two separated servers. I create the backup of the site using:
stsadm -o backup -url http://sgd -filename ...
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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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After site collection restore, site cannot be crawled?
We have a SharePoint 2007 site collection that some permissions were accidentally deleted from. It was impossible to determine how it was originally setup, so we decided to do an STSADM restore from ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Proper way to restore a Managed Metadata Services database to new Farm
Recently one of our SharePoint 2010 development servers died (OS related we think). I managed to get into the file system and grab all the SP databases (mdf's and ldf's). I rebuilt a new SP2010 ...
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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 ...
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Is there any alternative to circumvent 500MB Template restore limit? [duplicate]
I need to restore a template with size greater than 500MB. Is it possible to circumvent the limit?
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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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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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Planning document restore and backup techniques for SP2010
I've been thinking about how to properly backup Sharepoint such that it could be restored. Right now we have a simple farm with only one web application, several site collections each of which may ...
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Restore-SPSite : Access Denied
Restore-SPSite : Access Denied
You do not have permission to perform this action or access this resource.
This is the error I get when trying to restore a Site Collection backup from the integrated ...
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Restoring a Deleted User in the Site's Owners and Members Groups SharePoint 2010
I have accidentally deleted some users from the site's members and owners groups. How do I restore these users back to the site?
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problem restoring sharepoint from backup
i am really new to sharepoint 2010 and i have just setup a fresh and new sharepoint 2010 server .
My task is to restore an old backup from the existing sp2010 server to the new one with completely ...
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Farm Restore never completing?
I started restoring in new environment with central admin GUI. Now It is still showing me "Completing Restore" at SharePoint Search Index place. I was waiting since 4 hours. I checked Restore log ...
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Restore-SPSite reports “No content databases are available for this operation…”
I've run a site collection backup using Backup-SPSite. I then deleted the Site Collection using CA. Then tried to restore is using Restore-SPSite. Got the error "No content databases are available ...
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lost reference to all webparts after site creation using template
I have taken backup of http://mysite:300/ site and restored it in some other server say http://newserver:300/. when I have created subsite using template already exist, site creation is successfull ...
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Quickest way to backup and restore a web application content database across farms?
When I perform a complete backup of my development content database using Backup-SPSite and restore the site on a separate farm using Restore-SPSite its currently taking around 25 mins to backup and ...
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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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restore errors in sharepoint 2010
I am trying to restore my server back. I have full backup and a backup of the one of my web applications which is sharpeoint-81.
I perform the restore as explained on Microsofts site, I get many ...
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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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Attach restored content DB to same web application
I have an issue with a customer DB with it being corrupted. This has been the case for a while and hence no way to revert to a backup because all the backups have the corruption as well. I am however ...
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Backup and Restore SharePoint 2010 SiteCollections
I am getting an error "Backup version is different" while restoring SiteCollections from one web application to another on the same SharePoint server farm. Following are the steps I was executing when ...
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Getting error while restoring the backup file
I am getting following error while restoring the backup (.bak) file on my SharePoint server (SharePoint 2010). The backup file resides on the same machine.
Restore-SPSite : This operation can be ...
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Restore-SPSite issue with versions
I'm trying to restore a SPSite using Restore-SPSite command.
The command returns :
Restore-SPSite : Your backup is from a different version of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation and cannot be ...
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SharePoint 2007: Site collection deletes itself during restore
I am trying to restore some content databases, and during the restore a sitecollection deletes itself.
I am running the stsadm restore command, and i get the message "No content databases are ...
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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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Web site already exists error when restoring
I am using SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. And I am using publishing portal template. And I am using command,
stsadm -o restore -url ...
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How to specify the destination URL when restoring
I am using SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. And I am using publishing portal template.
I have a source web site called http://server1/site1, and I want to ...
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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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Is there any event when restoring a SPWeb from the Site Recycle Bin
With SharePoint 2010 SP1 the Site Recycle Bin feature was introduced.
When a site is deleted it appears in this recycle bin. From there the user can restore the site.
Now, my problem is that I need ...
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Lost Custom CSS File
I had my site branded nicely last week (ok, nice is a strong word).
Today, I updated the master page to bring jQuery into the fold and noted that My.css was checked out. I was going to undo the ...
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How to restore Site Collection from one environment to another
I am developing my intranet portal in office and created the same environment at home even the domain name and the users I am working with.
I have taken the backup of site collection through central ...
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Sharepoint 2010 SP1 Content Database restore in Previous version of Sharepoint 2010
I am having a requirement to restore my SharePoint 2010 SP1 backup to previous Sharepoint 2010 version. I googled a lot but hav't found any suitable answer for this. At last one of mine senior ...
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Backup-spsite Restore-spsite user permissions
I have run a Backup-spsite and then a Restore-spsite from a development farm to a production one. The permissions set on the development farm have not been carried to production.
The site collection ...
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How to move Site Collection to different Path in same Web Application?
I know the process involves backing up the site collection. And restoring it afterwards.
I'm looking for specific steps on the restore process.
I have a site collection at the root of a web ...
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Content DB restore returns 0 sites
In the process of re-branding my client, currently running on MOSS 2007. Can't detach their live database, so decided on backing up the live, and restoring the DB to a new database.
Live is called ...
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Move a site collection to Office 365
I have a web application with one site collection in an on-premise SharePoint 2010 test environment that I would like to migrate to Office 365. Is there a way to backup and restore or do I need to ...
