I'm about to perform a DB migration of an Intranet Publishing Site. Is it necessary to create the site collection before performing the DB restore?
asked Jul 19, 2012 at 20:15
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FYI.. I'm removing the 2007/2010 tags from your Migration questions since you have that information elsewhere in the questions and these aren't necessarily version specific.– Kit MenkeCommented Aug 8, 2012 at 18:50
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To be clearer, you actually only need an Web Application to which you would attach the database. I would highly recomand before doing that go through checking/testing at least by using:
- Test-SPContentDatabase which will tell you if you got all other dependencies installed, etc. (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263026.aspx)
- Run pre-upgrade checker (see here http://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc262231(office.14).aspx)
Also you would need at least MOSS with SP2 to be able to run these commands. There is so much documentation written on the subject. Start here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262792
answered Jul 19, 2012 at 20:42
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It seems preupgradecheck tool was updated with the Oct 2009 CU. So people would need to upgrade to at least that in their 2007 farm first: sharepointreporter.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/… Commented Aug 14, 2012 at 16:31
Yes, typically the I usually do it is, provision a web application and a site collesction then I detach the content database, copy the database accross and attach db to the site collection.
Use this to mount DB to the existing sitecollection after attaching to the new server:
Mount-SPContentDatabase "" -DatabaseServer "" -WebApplication siteUrl
