Showing posts with label Restore-SPSite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Restore-SPSite. Show all posts

Sunday 20 April 2014

Backup and Restore Site Collection in SP2013

Overview:  I have seen several customers us Backup and restore to help speed up the development process and have the ability to deploy between DTAP environments.  So the basic premise is create the site collection on dev/a and use backup and restore to promote the site collection including customisations and code in the next environment.

SharePoint 2010:  In SP2010 this worked assuming the env you are going to has a higher patch level than the source environment.  So if you went from SP2010 + cu to SP2010 + SP1 in production backing up and restoring the site collection works.  The trick was to package all assets into the site collection and to ensure all environments were on the same edition/patch level (or at least the destination farm was patched to a higher level than the source farm).

SP2013:  You can use PS backup and restore to move site collections but it is further restricted.  The source and destination environment need to be the same edition.  My issue is I can't move a troublesome production environment back to UAT as my UAT has been patched and is a later/newer version of SP2013 on prem.

I learnt this when restoring the site collection from 15.0.4481.1005 (SP2013 + Mar CU) on the source and trying to go to 15.0.4569.1000 (SP203 + SP1) y destination farm.

Restore-SPSite : 0x80070003
At C:\Users\SP_install\AppData\Local\Temp\5ae5fd1c-86ac-4032-8975-c739f39b6f36.ps1:3 char:1
+ Restore-SPSite –Identity "http://uat.futurerailway.org" –path "C:\Software\Deplo ...
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (Microsoft.Share...dletRestoreSite:SPCmdletRestoreSite) [Restore-SPSite], DirectoryNotFoundException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletRestoreSite  

Conclusion:  To move Site collection between farms or to different content databases, the SP farms need to be using the exact same version of SP.