Restore is the activity to return data from a backup to its original location or to its successor.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Restore Content Database to a different farm (Prod -> Beta -> Dev Servers)
My end goal is to have some code that automatically takes the Content Database backup from Production and automatically nightly restores it on Beta. Can I just do backup and restore sql commands? Or ...
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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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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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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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Service Pack Installation Backup Procedures
I have two farms . One is the staging farm and the other is the production farm. All MOSS 2007 Content Deployment is configured from stage to production environment
We have 10 web applications ...
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Restoring SSP Databases from SP1 to SP2 server farm
Has anyone restored Shared Services Databases from SP1 Server Farm to a new SP2 Server farm? I don't want to lose user related information link My Links etc.
I followed the DB attach method as ...
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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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Location of error log for restore operation
I try to perform a restore using stsadm. When the operation completes, I get the following message: Restore failed for Object [Sharepoint Database Name] in event OnPostRestore. For more information, ...
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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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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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Creating a disaster recovery policy for SP2010
I'm working on creating a SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Server disaster recovery (and backup-restore) policy for our organization. From what I've read, there are several options for doing backup-restore:
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Is it possible to restore only permissions from a SharePoint 2010 backup?
Is there a way to only restore permissions and not the content from a SharePoint 2010 back-up?
If yes, how?
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Why a restored stsadm Site is'nt showing images and styles?
i have a site which i migrated with stsadm -o restore -url urlto site - filename file.dat. Restored to a new web application in the production machine.
The development machine does not use host ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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 ...
