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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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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“Cannot change WebPart ExportMode to ‘All’. WebPart will be skipped”
Veem backup completed with below warning
“Cannot change Webpart Export Mode to ‘All’. Webpart will be skipped”
according to the Microsoft there is an issue enable the scripting for SharePoint sites,
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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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Backup-spsite failing with Fatal error 7105 occurred at 3:31PM. Note the error and time, and contact your system administrator
I am using SharePoint server 2019 and we needed to backup and restore a site collection, while am trying to do the backup it always throw's this error " Fatal error 7105 occurred at Jan 19 2024 ...
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SharePoint 2019 crawl host named site collection failed
A couple of days ago, one of our clients moved a content database from production to development.
The migration went smoothly, but there's an issue: the search results within site collections are not ...
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SharePoint Site backup fails with error "message":"The request has been throttled","retryAfterSeconds":33,"@error.X-ClientErrorCode":"quota"}}
We are backing up SharePoint Online site through a third party tool called Datto SaaS Backup.
It has been now failing for over a month for only one specific site with below error:
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What are the options we have if we want to have the ability to recover deleted data for more than 14 days?
As I know that SharePoint online keeps deleted content including lists, libraries, files and items for 93 days to be recovered from recycle bins or from the SharePoint admin "Delete sites" ...
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Removing database snapshop from failed backup
When trying to create a backup using a command like this:
Backup-SPSite https://server_name/sites/site_name -Path C:\Backup\site_name.bak -UseSqlSnapshot
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I ran into an issue where the target ...
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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 to backup a sharepoint site with guest access only
I've tried for some time to find an effective way to store backup copies of sharepoint sites to which I have guest access only. I would like to store them on a NAS or similar, not relying only on my ...
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SharePoint 2013 site collection backup failed with logical consistency-based I/O error: incorrect pageid
I am taking a site collection backup using standard SharePoint PowerShell command "Backup-SPSite" and it is failed with below error. I am using SharePoint 2013.
PS C:\Users\SPFarm> ...
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SharePoint 2016 Backup
We have SP2016 Topology 2 servers for each
2 APP Servers
2 DC Servers
2 FE Servers
2 SC Servers
1 SQL Server
This Farm never have Back UP before and I would like to perform backup for the first ...
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Backup SP Online lists with attachments - maybe powershell script?
Earlier in on-premises I used stsadm or powershell export-web/import-web to backup webs and particular lists/libraries. Now in cloud afaik we have only list templates (which are often useless because ...
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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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Can someone please help me with my WebApp backup using PowerShell?
I have a WebApp called Brett - WebApp that I'm trying to backup using PowerShell and for some reason, it keeps complaining that it can't find that item. I've created a folder under my C:/ drive called ...
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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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How to backup a content database with Backup-SPFarm cmdlet?
According to official KB, the cmdlet should be
Backup-SPFarm -Directory <BackupFolder> -BackupMethod {Full | Differential} -Item <ContentDatabaseName> [-Verbose]
However when I run above ...
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SharePoint Backup option
My manager asked me to look for a SharePoint backup option. Do you know any suggestions for SharePoint back up both content and application?
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Is it possible to recover a deleted column from a list in SharePoint 2013?
I accidentally deleted a column from a list that contained a lot of entered data.
I have no backup of this data, is there any way to recover?
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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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backup and restore error
I am trying to take full farm backup using PowerShell and from CA in 2019 SharePoint. but I am getting error
Object WSS_Content failed in event OnBackup. For more information, see
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Backup Sharepoint Office 365 Page
The sys admin at my organization set up a SharePoint site using Office 365.
I've created a new Page with some documentation which I would like to back up somehow.
I've looked around and I've been ...
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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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Backup-SPFarm : You need to have Machine administrator priviliges to run this cmdlet
I am working on a sharepoint on-premises farm 2016, and i created a scheduler task to do a backup for the whole farm + each site collection separately.
here is the action inside the task scheduler:-
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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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Why doing Backup-SPFarm for our sharepoint 2013 will update the sql databases "Last Database backup"
we have SharePoint enterprise 2013, and i run the following command to do a farm backup:-
Backup-SPFarm -Directory \\****\backups\ -BackupMethod full -BackupThreads 10 -Force
now on the generated ...
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How i can know the SQL service account for our sharepoint 2013 on-premises farm
To be able to run the BackUp-SPFarm i need to create a network location/drive and grant the sql service account read/write permission. but for our sharepoint on-premises 2013 /2016, how i can know ...
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Backup our sharepoint in-premises farms, are we following correct/sufficient appraoch
We have sharepoint on-premises servers 2013/2016 , which have the following architecture:-
windows server 2012/2008 R2 which act as the application servers.
windows server 2012/2008 R2 which act as ...
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"backup-spsite : You must specify a filename for the backup file" + "You need to have Machine administrator priviliges to run this cmdlet"
I use to run these commands to backup our sharepoint site collections and our farm without any problem:-
backup-spsite http://****01/sites/home/ -Path E:\Back\BFH.bak
Backup-SPFarm -Directory \\**...
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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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How to move a site collection to root path-based site collection in New SharePoint 2013 Farm
how to move a site collection to root path-based site collection in SharePoint.
I restored a content database in an SP2013 Farm from another SharePoint 2013 farm, where this database is a site ...
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Safest method to move a site
I would like to ask what is the safest way to move a Site within the same Site Collection including all the lists, libraries and subsites with the data and at the same time maintaining versioning?
Is ...
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Farm backup stuck on Step 1
Ours is Multi server (2 WFE and 2 APP) SP 2016 Env.
As usual when we am trying to start backup of the entire farm, it remains on Step 1.
We checked the ULS and found request has timeout
However if ...
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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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What are the backup facilities of Sharepoint Online
My team site has 5 pages and 46 lists. How can I backup these up?
Exporting each list to Excel and store them locally on my computer is not an option.
For the pages as well as for the list I have a ...
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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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Recovering "About Me" info from UPSA Profile DB backup
When trying to recover the "About Me" info from the UPSA Profile DB - I'm getting a "There is a compatibility range mismatch between the web server..." error.
Is there an alternative way of going ...
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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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How to perform backup when deleting Site Collection automatically?
I have requirement which is when user accidentally select delete button for site collection it has to perform backup operation automatically before it deleted is there any WSP solutions available ...
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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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SharePoint Database Backup Failure on SqL Server
We do have two DB and two Application servers for high availability purpose .
Regarding SQL Server:
We have full and transaction log Backup .
We created a high availability group and define the two ...
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