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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Backup Office 365 sharepoint site? (company.sharepoint.com)
Is it possible to synchronize or backup an Office 365 SharePoint site?
The company I work for want to use Microsofts "cloud" SharePoint offering, but they wont go ahead if they can't back it up on ...
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What is causing this error :- Restore-SPSite : <nativehr>0x80070003</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack>
I want to restore a site collection to my staging environment , and when i typed the following power shell command :-
PS H:\> Restore-SPSite http://ggvstg01:12160/discussionforum/GeneralDiscussi
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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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Restore a copy of the same site collection insdie the same web application
I have an enterprise wiki site collection , and i back up the site collection ( i will name it SiteA) , the i have create a new site collection (SiteB) of type enterprise wiki .
What i want is to ...
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SharePoint 2010: What is the difference between backing up a Site Collection and exporting a Site Collection?
Lectori salutem,
I am reading into backup and restore operations in SharePoint 2010. I have noticed that in Central Administration > Backup and Restore > Granular Backup there is the possibility to ...
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How to restore exported list cmp file
I went to SharePoint 2013 central administration - Backup and restore - Granular Backup - Export a site or list and Exported a list which as .cmp extension.
Now how do I restore this list in ...
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How to copy site collection to another server
I have a big corporate portal (on SharePonit 2010) and now I want to make a copy of it for my tests. So the problem is how make a copy of portal (maybe without documemts) from http://server1 to http:/...
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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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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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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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problem restoring sharepoint from backup
i am really new to sharepoint 2010 and i have just setup a fresh and new sharepoint 2010 server .
My task is to restore an old backup from the existing sp2010 server to the new one with completely ...
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How to save a list in a csv file via Powershell
I have a SharePoint online list with more than 9000 items and 22 column. The list is being populated on daily basis. I am taking backup manually every morning by saving the list as excel file in the ...
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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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Global workflows will not work well on a restored site collection
I have a site collection of type team site inside my SharePoint server 2013, where inside this site collection I did the following:-
I publish a workflow globally, using SharePoint designer 2013.
I ...
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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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Backup and restore in Office 365
I'm looking for official documentation regarding Backup schedules and restore options in Office 365.
More precisely:
How often is backups made
For how long is a backup saved
How do you restore?
How ...
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why backup-spsite get a backup much larger than $site.usage.Storage
I am working on a SP2010 farm. I need to backup a site collection. By using PowerShell
$site = Get-SPSite "http://sharepoint"
$site.usage.Storage
The size is about 38GB. However when I try to ...
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How to add Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell to machine without SharePoint
How I can add Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell to machine without SharePoint 2010?
I try to run PowerShell script to Backup Farm on Windows Server 2008 R2 without Sharepoint but while I ...
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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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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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I cant delete or restore a site collection or repair database
When I try to do a restore of a site collection,
restore-spsite -Identity https://xx/10014628/ -Path D:\SiteCollectionBackups\10014628.bak -Force -Confirm
I get:
restore-spsite : <nativehr>...
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Move root site collection
Is it possible in SP13 to move a root site collection to another location/path in the same Web Application, and then create a new root site collection ?
So if I have a Web Application SharePointTest....
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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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back up restore onto a different site collection
If I was to use a backup of one site collection and restore it onto another, would this give me every single thing that was on that site collection. So sites, lists, workflows etc?
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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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Sharepoint 2013: Field "Created By" and "Created" changed after site restore
I have a Document Library in SharePoint and when I did a Site backup and restore operation, some of the fields such as Created by and Created in this Document Library get different value. In the field ...
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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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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 back up a site collection without Data?
Is there a way to backup site collection without data? if not, is there a way restore the site collection from backup but without the data. The site collection backup is 150gb and I only need the site ...
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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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Back Up and Restore List with Retention of Workflow Status on SharePoint 2010 Site
I have a list in SharePoint 2010 web site with a simple workflow to test the possibility of back-up and restore of the list while retaining the status of work flow.
The list currently has only ID and ...
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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 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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User permissions broken after Restore-SPSite
Have got a SharePoint 2013 installation running as a development system (cloned from our live environment).
If I create a new site collection and set the primary and secondary site collection ...
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Farm Backup vs Granular Backup - SP 2010
I am using SharePoint 2010 and I only have 1 Site Collection.
In my CA I can do a Farm Backup or a Granular Backup.
What must I used, I just want to make a full backup of everything including all ...
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Restored infopath forms still opening using the new template.xsn?
I did a site restore from an unattached database in order to get back all of my old infopath forms held in a document library. Reason being that I had modified (deleted and replaced with new fields) ...
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Taking granular backup rather than complete site backup
When ever I want to move site to one server to another I take backup using "backup-spsite" command. This was fine until now so is there a way to take backup of those items which were changed?
For e.g. ...
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Restore backup from one farm to another in same domain: Access Denied
I have a path based site collection on my dev farm. It shares a content database with other site collections on the dev farm. My domain account is the site collection administrator and is also a farm ...
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Sharepoint 2013 Online Site Collection Backup-Restore using CSOM
I have created one site collection on SharePoint Online.
Now I want to make another site collection with the same content.
So can anyone explain me how to go about backup and restore of site ...
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Sharepoint 2010 backup: size of differential backupfile too large
We've got a SharePoint 2010 Farm (SharePoint server and SQL Server split) which should be backed up on regularly basis. First we had a SQL Backup (FullBackup in the evening, Differential every 4 hours)...
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Can you backup a site collection structure but not include the content?
I have a very large site collection with 10,000s of documents. I want to create a copy of the site collection but not necessarily all of the content. Is there a good way to make a cop of a site ...
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Is it possible to just download the whole sharepoint enviromment?
is it possible to download the whole Sharepoint Strukture of sharepoint web to an localhost and view it on localhost.
We want to backup our sharepoint Server to a NAS and if we need it being able to ...
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