moving my site collection from root to a new managed path

Question

I am working on a Team site collection inside SharePoint enterprise server 2013. and the publishing infrastructure site collection and site features are enable. now i want to move the site collection from being on the root to be under a new managed path.

The site collection i want to move have the following properties:-

1. It is defined on the root http://servername/

2. It have one direct sub-site http://servername/Dept/

3. the above sub-site have another sub-site http://servername/Dept/DeptA

now i want to move the site collection to be under different url which is http://servername/Area/<current site collection>... where "Area" will be a Explicit managed path.

so i am planning to do the following to move the site collection from being on the root to its new URL.

1. back up the current site collection using BackUp-SPSite

   Backup-SPSite http://servername/ -Path C:\Backup\A.bak

2. remove the current site collection permanently

3. create the new managed path named "Area"

4. Restore the site collection on the new url

   Restore-SPSite http://servername/Area/A -Path C:\Backup\A.bak

so are the above 4 steps valid ? and could i result in having duplicate GUIDs?

Answer 1

Above scenario should work, as you are deleting the existing site collection then you will not see the Duplicate GUID problem.

You may need to refresh the config db, in order to update the record ( very less chances)

$db = Get-SPDatabase | where {$_.Name -eq "DatabaseName"}
$db.RefreshSitesInConfigurationDatabase()