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While restoring SharePoint 2010 site collection backup on dev server, I am getting below error, where my dev server has latest patches updates with SP2 and later.

Restore-SPSite : Your backup is from a different version of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation and cannot be restored to a server running the current version. The backup file should be restored to a server with version '4.0.146.0' or later.

As you can see on below attached screenshot that web application on dev server has latest sharepoint foundation version

As you can see in attached screenshot that web application on dev server has latest sharepoint foundation version

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  • The backup needs to be on the same version as the environment to restore to.
    – Christoffer
    Commented Mar 3, 2020 at 15:17
  • Hi @Chistoffer than you for quick reply, but my dev server has higher version than prod server as you can see
    – SPDev
    Commented Mar 3, 2020 at 15:20

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First, check the patch level of your source and destination environment. Make sure your destination environment is not at a lower version than the source. If so, you may need to patch your environment as same as your source.

Steps to Check Database Schema Versions:

Central Administration application > Management > Manage content databases. Select the database where you want to restore. Click on the DB name under “Database Versioning and Upgrade”.

For more information refer the below link,

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/30500.sharepoint-troubleshooting-your-backup-is-from-a-different-version-error-while-restoring-the-site.aspx

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  • Hi Karthik, as you can see my dev server version has higher version than source environment. This is strange. I am able to restore site collection backup for other but facing above mention error for this one.
    – SPDev
    Commented Mar 3, 2020 at 15:28
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You can check the SharePoint database status by doing the following:

Central Administration > Upgrade & Migration > Review database status->Below “Status” column, check the action required for each SharePoint Database.

Run the below cmdlet to upgrade all content database that still needs upgrade:

Get-SPContentDatabase | ?{$_.NeedsUpgrade -eq $true} | Upgrade-SPContentDatabase
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  • Thank you Lisa for quick reply, already tried Upgrade-SPContentDatabase command and got below message that DB is already upgraded WARNING: Database [SPContentDatabase Name=WSS_Content_SharePoint_SPDev2010_8282] does not need to be upgraded. In Central Admin Content DB is also showing that it's upgraded for destination site collection.
    – SPDev
    Commented Mar 4, 2020 at 12:46
  • Hi Lisa if content DB source and destination Site Collection backup are of different SQL Sever version, then it can be an issue in restore as mentioned here sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/16245/…
    – SPDev
    Commented Mar 4, 2020 at 13:57
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As content DB source and destination Site Collection backup are of different SQL Sever version, so I have to restore DB backup and restore on DB for Dev machine and then attach that DB with my Dev sharepoint site as mentioned here SharePoint restore fails because of newer version

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