Questions tagged [backup]
A backup or the process of backing up is making copies of data which may be used to restore the original after a data loss event.
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My SharePoint 2007 backup keeps failing
The steps I took were by the book (Building Office 2007 Solutions in C# 2005 specifically):
verified user service account permissions. In my case the same
SPConfigUser is used at all levels of the ...
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SharePoint Backup
I need to get back up copy of daily code changes that I made in SharePoint site. Is it possible? I have found back up options like taking back up of farm, site collection in central administration. ...
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Backup via SharePoint or backup via SQL Server?
How should I backup my 2010 SharePoint server? As I see it there are 3 choices:
Full Farm backup
Site collection backup
SQL Server backup
We're only doing backups using points 1 (occasionally) and ...
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Enormous database log files - Why are they not being truncated after a SharePoint backup runs?
I've performed a full Farm backup and also a full Site Collection backup using Central Administration site but there are still several enormous database log files
4GB - SharePoint_AdminContent
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Export-SPWeb temporary folder
Anyone knows the location of temporary files that Export-SPWeb uses when exporting sites? One of our servers ran out of drive space when exporting the site and now I can't find the files created by ...
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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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Can I use SharePoint Farm backups in differential mode at the same time as using DPM using differential snapshots to backup the content databases?
Using SharePoint 2010.
My question is in the title. I have a SharePoint farm that I am using the SharePoint Farm backup to backup the entire farm each Saturday, and a differential backup every other ...
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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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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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SharePoint 2010 Farm Backup and the User Profile Service
Every night we run a farm backup via PowerShell Script, but after that the User Profile Service is unprovisioned. I've found this article:
http://sharepoint.nauplius.net/2011/06/sharepoint-2010-farm-...
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SharePoint2010 restore does not restore the tags
I am facing a strange issue. Whenever I take backup of SharePoint site collection and move it from Model Office to Production System, the tags with the documents become inactive. When you open the ...
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Backup-spsite Restore-spsite user permissions
I have run a Backup-spsite and then a Restore-spsite from a development farm to a production one. The permissions set on the development farm have not been carried to production.
The site collection ...
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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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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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How can I back up a sharepoint site? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I schedule site collection or site backups?
I would like to backup a SharePoint 2010 site every Friday, How could I able to schedule it to run automatically on each ...
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Best way to migrate a site collection from Enterprise to Foundation?
I have a site collection on an Enterprise server that I need to migrate to a server that only has Foundation on it. I have disabled all Enterprise-only features, and attempted a backup and restore, ...
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Differential backup failed, "perform a full database backup"
I've just setup SharePoint on a dedicated server and I am now going through setting up the backup plans before we start really using it.
Because SharePoint does not have an "automated" backup ...
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Migrate from 2007 to 2010 without access to database
one of our customers has a sharepoint 2007 environment in a shared environment. Now they want us to move there sharepoint to 2010 on another server in another domain.
Because i'm not very ...
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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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How long does it take to backup a Sharepoint site
I started a backup at 5pm yesterday evening and it is now 9.15am the following day and the backup is still running. That's over 16 hours! I don't believe the site to be too large, there are 10 sites ...
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Sharepoint backups - Development image
I'm looking into creating an image of a SP 2010 development environment.
I would like to avoid operations like restoring the image of the virtual machine (the environment is on a virtual PC) and opt ...
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ArgumentException with Export-SPWeb Lists
PS C:\Users\Administrator> Export-SPWeb "http://win-oql2facn6h8/" -itemurl "List
s/Disney" -path "c:\Backups\disney.cmp"
Export-SPWeb : <nativehr>0x80070057</nativehr><nativestack>...
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ITem SharePoint-80 Not Found
I just installed SP2010. There's the default web app named SharePoint-80. I am trying to backup this web app using Power Shell.
Here's my command: Backup-SPFarm -Directory C:\Backups -BackupMethod ...
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Sharepoint 2010 farm backup - what is not backed up?
When I do a farm backup either using Central Admin or Powershell, what are the stuffs that does not get included in the backup and that I have to manually back them up. A comprenshive list would be ...
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Advantage of SharePoint aware mirroring compared to normal SQL mirroring?
We are going to implement mirroring for our databases in order to increase the data redundancy. Our understanding is that SQL clustering won't help for this. Can someone please explain for me why we ...
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Include SPDatabase for Backup
SharePoint 2010
I've been Googling for days now, trying to find an answer to my issue. My boss wants to see if it's possible to do the following upon feature activation:
Create a custom database to ...
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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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How to Restore entire farm without configuration database?
I need help to restore my SharePoint farm.
Actually by mistake i deleted my configuration database and i don't have backup of it. but i have full farm back file "spbr0004". Is it possible to restore ...
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Problem with Restore-SPFarm
We have to move a Sharepoint 2010 web application from and old server to a new one.
The old server has Sharepoint 2010 and SQL Server both installed. The new server is actually 2 VMs, one for ...
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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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Difference between backup-SPFarm and Backup-SPConfigurationDatabase in sharepoint foundation 2010
I want to know difference between backup-SPFarm and Backup-SPConfigurationDatabase powershell command.
I know backup-SPFarm is used to take backup of whole farm then why to use Backup-...
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Unable to Restore File From Backup - Compatibility Range Mismatch
Late last month, I created a site collection backup via Granular Backup in Central Administration. In that time, one of our users has overwritten a file that now needs to be recovered from a document ...
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SharePoint 2010 - Export sites as template with the GUI -> ERROR
I want to export a SharePoint site with the GUI.
I tried the two options, with and without content. But both ways are not working.
When I export a site, a correlation id is displayed.
What is the ...
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Backup-SPSite gives an error: “Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object”
I got a backup of a Sharepoint 2010 site that I created from our client's production server so that I can make some new changes to it on my staging server.
I can restore the site collection from the ...
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Possible to download all versions of a document?
My team is looking for a way to download all versions of a particular document on our site (or more generally we would like to back-up all versions of all documents in a particular document library). ...
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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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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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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 Update)...
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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 12.0....
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Different Version Problems in Restoring Sharepoint Sİte [closed]
I'm trying to move a Sharepoint site from one Sharepoint 2010 server to another.
I used the Backup-SPSite cmdlet to create a backup file.
It gives the error below after I try to restore with the ...
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Restoring Infopath Workflow metadata
We have problems with regards to backing up workflow status data, that we have been trying to solve for about a year now.
The situation:
After restoring individual InfoPath forms the workflow status ...
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Restore an individual sharepoint site
We're using Sharepoint 2007 (MOSS). One of our users has deleted a subsite and wants it back - is there any way to restore an individual Sharepoint site from a site collection backup?
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how to backup a SPList with 25000 records including attachements on SP2007
On SP2007 there is a sharepoint list (SPList) with 25000 records. The records contain attachements. In SP Designer 2007, the list has a size of 64MB.
How can a backup be created ?
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How to fully clone SharePoint 2007 environment?
I have a client which asked us to develop a customization for them, but they cannot provide us with testing environment. So we would like to try to setup a testing environment by ourselves. My ...
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Backup processs always showing "in progress" and 0% completed
I have automated my SharePoint 2010 server daily backup operation by running a service and the backup location will point to D:\Automatic_Backup\ folder location. This service will take the backup by ...
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End user site backup
Now that SharePoint Designer 2010 does not allow end users to make backups of their sites, are there any other options for an end user or site collection administrator to backup or migrate a ...
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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 2010 differential backup script
Is this the right way to write a SharePoint 2010 differential backup script?
@echo off
echo ====================================================
echo Backup Script For SharePoint Server 2010
echo ===...
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How do I schedule site collection or site backups?
I know I can use PowerShell or Central Admin to backup a SharePoint site collection or site.
Is there a way to automate this process or do I have to create a scheduled task that runs either a ...
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