27 May, 2014

"Your backup is from a different version of Microsoft SharePoint" - Error while restoring the site!

Few days back i was trying to restore a site from staging to production. But i received the below error.

Error: Restore-SPSite: Your backup is from a different version of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation and cannot be restored to a server running the current version. The backup file should be restored to a server with version '4.2.7.0' or later.

Resolution:
First check the patch level of  your source and destination environment. Make sure your destination environment is not at lower version than the source. If so , you may need to patch your environment as same as your source.


 In my case , source and destination patch version were at same patch level. But when I checked the database Schema Versions of the database which I am trying to restore is not upgrade and it was still at the older Version.

Steps to Check Database Schema Versions 
Central Administration àApplication Management à Manage content databasesà Select your database where you want to restore àclick on the DB name à  under “Database Versioning and Upgrade” you can see something like below

Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPContentDatabaseSequence Current Schema Version: 4.1.30.0, Maximum Schema Version: 4.2.7.0
Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPContentDatabaseSequence2 Current Schema Version: 4.1.7.0, Maximum Schema Version: 4.1.7.0
Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPContentDatabase Current Schema Version: 14.0.6137.5002, Maximum Schema Version: 14.0.7105.5000

If the Current Schema Version is less than the Maximum Schema Version, then the database should be upgraded as soon as possible.

To Upgrade content database, Execute the below command in powershell.

Upgrade-SPContentDatabase <Content_db_name>”

After executing the command,

Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPContentDatabaseSequence Current Schema Version: 4.2.7.0, Maximum Schema Version: 4.2.7.0
Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPContentDatabaseSequence2 Current Schema Version: 4.1.7.0, Maximum Schema Version: 4.1.7.0
Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPContentDatabase Current Schema Version: 14.0.7105.5000, Maximum Schema Version: 14.0.7105.5000

Now the database is upgrade to the version 4.2.7.0 and you can restore without any issues.

3 comments:

  1. A special thanks for this informative post. I definitely learned new stuff here I wasn't aware of !

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  2. Its work for me. thanks alot for sharing this information.

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  3. Nice Post!! It worked for me... Thanks a lot.. :)

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