{"id":3600,"date":"2012-03-22T18:11:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T10:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sharepointboost.com\/blog\/?p=3600"},"modified":"2023-07-31T11:39:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T03:39:57","slug":"how-to-use-sharepoint-2010-management-shell-for-backup-and-restore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/how-to-use-sharepoint-2010-management-shell-for-backup-and-restore\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use SharePoint 2010 Management Shell for Backup and Restore?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do you backup and restore a site collection in SharePoint 2010? Usually, administrators are considered the only option, but in fact SharePoint 2010 also provides a relatively easy and convenient way to perform these operations with several simple PowerShell commands.<\/p>\n

When you are Backup and Restore a site collection, you are actually performing 3 separate operations:<\/p>\n

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  1. Backup the site to a single file.<\/li>\n
  2. Create a new site collection as the target site collection.<\/li>\n
  3. Do the Restore.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    1. <\/strong>Backup SharePoint site collection<\/strong><\/p>\n

    A. Click “Start<\/strong>” enter “All Programs<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

    B.?Select “SharePoint 2010 Management Shell<\/strong>“(Run as Administrator).<\/p>\n

    C. Execute the following command as shown in figure 1:<\/p>\n

    backup-SPSite http:\/\/kongyang:8081 -Path C:\\8081.bak<\/strong><\/p>\n


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    <\/strong><\/p>\n

    Figure 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

    D. The backup file 8081.bak<\/strong> has been generated in the Local Desk (C:) .<\/p>\n

    Note<\/span><\/strong>: http:\/\/kongyang:8081 is the name of the web application to be backed up.<\/p>\n

    2. <\/strong>Create Target Site Collection<\/strong><\/p>\n

    SharePoint site collection is based on the web application, so we need to create a web application for the target site collection. And don’t forget to take attention to the Database Server name and Database name.<\/p>\n

    A. Create a web application (As shown in the Figure 2)<\/p>\n

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    Figure 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

    B. Create site collection for the web application<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    3. <\/strong>Restore site collection<\/strong><\/p>\n

    A. Click “Start<\/strong>“ enter <\/strong>“All Programs.<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

    B. Select “SharePoint 2010 Management Shell<\/strong>“(Run as Administrator).<\/p>\n

    C. Execute the following command as shown in Figure 3:
    \nRestore-SPSite http:\/\/kongyang:2345 -Path C:\\8081.bak -Force -DatabaseServer KONGYANG -DatabaseName wss_content_8081backup<\/strong><\/p>\n

    D. Input “A<\/strong>,” then press “Enter<\/strong>,” will execute the restore.<\/p>\n

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    Note<\/span><\/strong>: KONGYANG<\/strong> is the name of Database Server. wss_content_8081backup<\/strong> is the name of Database.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    How do you backup and restore a site collection in SharePoint 2010? Usually, administrators are considered the only option, but in fact SharePoint 2010 also provides a relatively easy and convenient way to perform these operations with several simple PowerShell commands. When you are Backup and Restore a site collection, you are actually performing 3 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[461,125,480],"tags":[328,327,326],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3600"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9248,"href":"https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions\/9248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boostsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}