Restore is the activity to return data from a backup to its original location or to its successor.
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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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Getting Connection close after a restore
Here are the steps I took to restore.
I copied a content database that was hooked to QA root site (both mdf and ldf) to a staging farm database.
Attched the db and log to the staging farm's database ...
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Convert Site Root Site Collection AND root of Web Application
Greeting, everyone.
I've been getting my feet wet with SharePoint Consulting for the last couple of months now and I've been tasked with a migration that I wanted to run past this fine community. ...
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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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recover site collection database or restore a site collection
Is there any way to recover a database or site collection that has been overwritten?
I had a testing site and I was developing bunch of stuff on that site. A co-worker restore an old backup on the ...
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Backup and Restore Site Collection from SharePoint Foundation 2013 to Server/Enterprise 2013
I want to take a site collection (backup) from Foundation/Standard 2013 (ServicePack1) and restore this site collection to Server/Enterprise 2013 (ServicePack1).
The backup(.bak) file is created ...
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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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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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Restore of content db fails to restore top-level site collection
I have a backup of a content db restored to Sql server as WSS_Content_Live
I have a brand new SP installation setup with AutoInstaller, so we have a port 80 web site called Portal Home.
I have ...
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Site Content Types screwed up. How to restore to default?
I need to change a root site's Item Content Type settings back to the default values. I also need to do this for all other Content Types that inherit from Item. Can someone recommend a safe an ...
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How to retrieve File version from SPListItem
I'm trying to get file versions from an an SPListItem...
I tried in many way, looping on SPListItem.Versions or SPListItem.File.Versions, tring to return my byte stream..
I can retrieve file info's, ...
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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516 views
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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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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2answers
987 views
Powershell backup/restore or import/export to keep all document versions?
I need to move a test SharePoint 2010 site collection and database to a new server (and new database). I want to make sure that I keep user security and all document versions. Does backup/restore keep ...
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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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Restore site collection using powershell : Getting not found error
Restore-SPSite -Identity http:/snk145:60000/ -Path "D:/MS.bak"
I am trying to restore a site collection (SharePoint 2010) to other from a backup file,
The term 'Restore-SPSite' is not recognized as ...
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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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Move SharePoint to new Domain
I have SharePoint Foundation installed on a domain joined machine. It is a single server install (SharePoint and SQL on the same machine). I need to un-join this machine from the domain and install ...
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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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Restore-SPSite to the same content database
I ran Restore-SPSite on my server from a backup. I then deleted the site collection and did it again but got the following error:
Restore-SPSite : The operation that you are attempting to perform ...
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Unable to login into site after restoring
a continuation from here, problem restoring sharepoint from backup
after restoring from a back-up into the new site, i am unable to login despite changing the site collection administrator.
all ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Restore-SPSite failure due to insufficient Content Database Space
I hope someone can help me solve this weird problem I'm facing for 4 days.
I'm trying to restore the backup of Sharepoint 2010 web application. I'm using Windows Powershell command :
Restore-SPSite ...
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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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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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compatibility range mismatch between the Web server and database
On Production Server:
3 tier architecture for Moss2007
Sql server 2008 Enterprise with DB Intranet_Content_Hosted for one of the portals.
On Test Server
3 tier architecture ---3 VM's are created
SQL ...
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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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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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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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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) ...
