Backup and Restore SharePoint 2010 Site Collection with PowerShell
A PowerShell command prompt will appear and you need to format the following to fit the backup for your site.
Backup-SPSite -Identity SiteCollectionURLHere -Path BackupFilePathHere [-Force] [-NoSiteLock] [-UseSqlSnapshot] [-Verbose]- Force – Include this if you want to override a backup with the same name
- NoSiteLock – Will prevent the site from going to Read Only mode while the backup is being taken. A small warning, if someone changes content on the site while the backup is being created and according to Microsoft “might lead to possible data corruption”
- UseSQLSnapshot – A database snapshot will be taken before the backup begins and the backup will be done off the snapshot. The advantage is that changes can be made to the site while the backup process is running without fear of corruption. The snapshot will be deleted automatically when the backup is completed. You don’t need to specify the -NoSiteLock parameter when using this method
For Example:Backup-SPSite -Identity http://servername/sites/BISite -Path D:\SharePointBackups\BISite\07-13-2011.bak Restore-SPSite -Identity SiteCollectionURLHere
-Path BackupFilePathHere [-DatabaseServer DatabaseServerNameHere]
[-DatabaseName ContentDatabaseNameHere] [-HostHeader HostHeaderHere]
[-Force] [-GradualDelete] [-Verbose]- DatabaseServer – Specify the server for the content database
- DatabaseName – Specify the name of the content database
- HostHeader – URL of the Web application that will hold the host-named site collection
- Force – Overwrite the site collection if it exists
- GradualDelete – Recommended for site collections over 1 Gig in size, existing data is marked as deleted and gradually removed over time by a job rather than all at once to reduce the performance hit of deleting large amounts of data
