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SharePoint sites not working after database restore from Production to DR
What is the correct way to move sites from production to DR? I followed these steps but it didn't work.
Took backup using Backup-SPSite on production
Restored site on DR using Restore-SPSite and it ...
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Site Collection not visible when moved from Production to DR
My WSS_Content database contain 13 site collections. I restored this database from Prod to DR and except one, all site collections are working. In view all site collections in CA, the site is ...
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Restore-SPSite Does Not Transfer Data 2016 to 2019
I am attempting to copy some site collections over from a SharePoint 2016 installation to a new SharePoint 2019 installation, however when I take a file generated by Backup-SPSite and I attempt to ...
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How can I backup Sharepoint online (sites & documents) and restore?
How can I backup Sharepoint online (sites & documents) and restore? Can this be achieved without using 3rd party tool?
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How to take backup of Content Database without data
Hi in SharePoint 2013 Can it possible to take backup of Content Database without data i mean no documents should come from all document libraries and list items from lists?
Here I can not take full ...
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Restore-SPSite Fails :The operation that you are attempting to perform cannot be completed successfully
I am trying to restore a site collection backup from production on the dev site collection. Old dev site collection already exists, but I am trying to overwrite that with the latest copy.
I ran ...
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backup SharePoint O365
I want to backup a O365 site through PowerShell, but I couldn't find the command for it anywhere on the internet.
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SharePoint 2010 Backup
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I am confused as to why this happens. I am trying to use the Backup-Spsite to backup the site collection. If the size of the site is 5 GB, it just goes beyond 13GB and still going. Why does this ...
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Restoring from a completely different farm backup
I'm sure this will sound like a very novice question and many will wonder the application of such an action, but here goes.
Say I have two different single-server SharePoint instances (2 different ...
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Is there any restriction on backup-ing sharepoint databases using SQL management studio
We have SharePoint on-premises farm 2013, and per my knowledge that it is not supported to query the SharePoint databases. but is it a supported operation to select a SharePoint database (for example ...
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If we have a backup for all the sharepoint 2013 databases, can/how we restore a corrupted application server
One of our customers use to have a sharepoint enterprise farm 2013, with the following architecture:-
windows 2008 R2 which contain sharepoint on-premises farm 2013.
windows 2008 R2 which contain Sql ...
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Can I keep SQL Server and just restore Sharepoint to earlier time?
I have two separate VMs for sharepoint and SQL server. Unfortunately Sharepoint crashed and I couldn't repair it and just could restore a full OS backup (by Symantec System Recovery) for about one ...
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Is using a tool named "Symantec Backup Exec / Veritas Backup Exec" a good appraoch to backup sharepoint application servers and its databases
I am reviewing our backup policy for sharepoint on-premises farms 2013 & 2016. where our IT admins mentioned that they backup all Microsoft applications such as exchnage,sharepoint, sql server, ...
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Restore SP2010 (non claim) to SP 2013
I did a database backup from SP 2010 and restored it to SP 2013 Mount-SPContentDatabase followed by site upgrade. Everything looks good except the users did not get converted in claims based. (I can ...
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Restore SPFarm from live to test
I took a farm backup for our live sharepoint server 2013 enterprise :-
Backup-SPFarm -Directory \\fileserver100\intranetbackup\FarmBackUp\ -BackupMethod full -BackupThreads 10 -Force
now i want to ...
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Two web applications with same Site Structure and Content can be work in one SharePoint Farm?
Hi i have scenario like below
I have a web application in Production SharePoint Farm it has custom master pages,many custom page layouts and angular .JS files and
some farm solutions deployed target ...
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Restore site collection from higher database version to lower database version
I have a development SP Farm (along with Project Server) with following database version:
Configuration database version: 16.0.4534.1000
UAT SP Farm with following database version:
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Backup & Restore SP Site with External Content Type to Another Site - make error
My site includes External Content Type (BCS) on Dev site, with List which of that type - and when
i restore it to Prod server, the connectivity of the list, stay as previous system..!
any way to ...
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Restored site collection has same site ID as original site collection
I backed up one site collection from one WA and than I restored that in another WA as a new cite collection.
I found out that new site collection has same site ID as original site collection. This ...
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Workflows not working after backup and restore to new site collection
We have site collection with data in it with workflows2013 that have app steps.
Task was to create site collection on another WA with same data as old SC, so we created new site collection and new db ...
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Restore config databases in SharePoint
Is it possible to restore SharePoint config database on a different farm or the same farm using database backup and restore
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Backup & Restore on two different versions
i have backup from sharepoint 2013 but sharepoint in my virtual machine is 2016.
is it possible restore it on sp 2016?
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Use compression during Database backup
In some circumstances, we can use compression to decrease the size of backups and the time to complete each backup.
I use following command to restore site.
Mount-SPContentDatabase "MyDatabase" -...
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site collection url is same as root site after backup and restore
i have 1 web application with 1 site collection in 1 content DB. In order to restore some corrupted site data i have got the back up and restore the same db from past dates to dev environment which is ...
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How to restore existing Site Collection Content DB to a SharePoint Site Collection
I have a Site Collection Content DB back up. I want to create/ restore to existing site collection. Are there any ways to do that?
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Farm backup and restore from windows server 2008 R2 to windows server 2012 R2 in sharepoint
Can we do farm backup(from Central Admin) of sharepoint 2013 in Windows server 2008 R2 and restore the entire farm to Windows server 2012 R2?
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Restore-SPSite : Invalid object name 'Sites'
I tried to rename the site collection host header (see post here) and it did not work, so I found this blog and thought I could give Backup-SPSite, Remove-SPSite and Restore-SPSite a try. I used this ...
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DBCC CHECKDB Corruption in Search_Service_Application_CrawlStoreDB
After some recent server issues, the SharePoint full backup keep getting an error when checking for database integrity. The following error message is thrown in SQL logs:
DBCC CHECKDB (...
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How to Separate the site collections with large size of 100GB from large content database of 250GB
We are having SP 2013 production farm with storing documents in individual site collections using workflow management.
One of the content databases is growing large with 250GB data storage in SQL ...
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how can I restore site on different farm?
I have a PRE site that has all functionality inside (front, sql server, etc) and a PRO farm with four servers (farm- front- sql server- search-owa) and I want to have a working copy on PRE, so in case ...
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SharePoint Online backup restore
For SP Server the max. 100 GB is always mentioned as the size for a sitecollection to be able to be restored from backup. Any body any experience with backup restore in SharePoint Online ? Hard to ...
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Audience Guid is different in site collection backup and restoration?
I have a Site collection with several list and documents, I have enabled the Audience targeting for those and targeted some audience for some documents. I took back of the site collection and I ...
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Please advise me software which restore sharepoint sites? [closed]
Here the restore means a restoring process from an backup had been created before a disaster.
Sometime I use SharePoint PowerShell:
Restore-SpSite http://mySp -path c:\my.bak
and Veeam software - ...
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How I can specify a exact view to new List via client dll?
I can create different types of lists, but all the time the default view is applied to the created list. Can I assign a custom view for specific list via client dll - Microsoft.SharePoint.Client ?
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Back up of sub site only in SharePoint 2010
I am having a subsite (test) with 69 subsites under it. But I want only to take back up of the first sub site(test) and restore it back. Can some one suggest on how to do it. when I am using export ...
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create new SharePoint 2013 server and restore existing database
I am quite new to SharePoint and I have been assigned with a major task.
One of the company's site office had SharePoint 2013 on it. Over there through Central Admin, our system team guy has taken a ...
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SharePoint backup and restore from central administration.
Is it a good practice to perform backup and restore the farm\web application from backup and restore option of Central admin? Are there any known issues or limitations for that?
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Restore-SPSite to different managed path Site Collection
I have a backup taken with below code from SharePoint 2013 site URL: http://sharepoint/sites/test/
Backup-SPSite -Identity http://sharepoint/sites/test/ -Path C:\Backup\BackupTest.bak
Now If I want ...
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Error loading navigation: The Managed Navigation term set is improperly attached to the site. When i restore my Enterprise wiki site collection
I am working on sharepoint server 2013, and i have added an Enterprise wiki site collection and i enable the managed navigation + Friendly URL. now whenever i create a new enterprise wiki page a ...
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Is there a way to back up/restore SharePoint 2010 Application Pages built with Visual Studio?
I have a few separate Application Pages built for SharePoint 2010 using Visual Studio 2012 and I'd like a way to back up and restore these SharePoint solutions (does not have to be a SharePoint based ...
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Host a copy of a web app on the same server farm
I have to clone a web application on a same server farm.
What I've done so far:
Backup the SQL DB of my webapp.
Restored it under a different name.
Create a new webapp and attach my restored DB.
What ...
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Backup and Restore
I want to do some testing for later use in our environment.
I have never performed a backup and restore before so I have quite a few doubts and confusions.
Before restoring, I have the option to set ...
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Copy site collection from one web application to another web application within the same farm
I have two web applications, webapp1 and webapp2 in SharePoint 2016. Each one contains a root site collection. I need to copy the site collection from webapp1 to webapp2 as a site collection.
I ...
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Site backup file and database is very large but site is almost empty
I used the following script to backup/restore site collections
Backup-SPSite -Identity "http://domain" -Path "C:\backup\domain.bak" -Force -NoSiteLock
then I run this command to restore to another ...
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unable to resotre a site collection "Restore-spsite : No content databases are available for this operation "
I have backup my site collection found on the root. then i wanted to resote it on a different location, so i did the following steps:-
1.using the central administration , i delete the site ...
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moving my site collection from root to a new managed path
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 ...
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How to take a site collection backup without Active directory and permissions?
I need to move our site collections from one server to another which have different AD and Domain, Please suggest any idea for better migration?
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Restoring content database on SQL Server throws error database size limit
We a standalone SharePoint 2013 server with SQL Server Express. I have received a content database backup file of ~50MB. When I try to restore this content database backup file in our SQL Server ...
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Unable to access the site after restoring the site collection backup in SharePoint 2013?
I have a site collection with several subsites, All page layouts are customized as farm solutions by using visual studio application pages, I tried to restore my site collection backup to another ...
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restore only specific items in a list from content DB backup SharePoint 2013
i want to restore only items in the specific list from my backups .bak file with 14 Gigabytes.(i have content database full backups that every day made automatically. )
cmp solution backup and ...
