We
are aware that requirement can be of any form, it might be logically possible
or not but when the requirements arises then clock start ticking and task
assignment counter starts! :)
One
of our users requested such kind of strange request that he wanted the backup
of one of the web application to get restored in the same farm with different
web application, I tried my level best to convince him that I can get this one
restored in development/stage and not understanding the logic of same replica
within same farm! But he seems to get this one done so I tried my research and
started taking the backup by SQL console.
Backup
completed successfully and now the turn of restore – keeping my fingers crossed!
Let me tell you guys- you might have done so many backup-restorations across
multiple farms but this seems to be unique.
Why
unique? – Because you are restoring that backup within the same farm.
As soon as I hit the restore command-BOOM :) it got failed!
Resolution:-
Please
refer this TechNet thread- http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/e61ddaad-e00d-42f7-8365-728e0b224811/how-to-restore-existing-sharepoint-site-collection-on-same-farm?forum=sharepointadminlegacy
As per this
reference- It is not possible to create a duplicate site collection using
Content Database backup method. This is because when you restore the content
database backup on another empty database the site collection ID remains the
same.
Because of this,
even if you add the new restored content database both the content databases
will have the same site collection ID and that is the reason why the central
admin shows only one site collection.
Pretty straight forward to understand and the only possible way to
accomplish this requirement are either by PowerShell or by stsadm.
Step –by- details:-
1) Create
a web application by the generic way either by central administration or by
PowerShell
2) By
this way – a new database will be created which has an altogether different ID
3) Take the
backup of the main web application that you want to restore on new one by using
PowerShell command- Backup-SPSite -Identity “http://amolsharepointgalaxy.com” -Path
"E:\Backup\galaxy.bak"
4) Restore
the backup on to the web application that you have created in the step#1
5) That’s
it- you are done.
If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned
information then please let me know, Thank you.
