The following is the procedure to explain how to backup and restore SharePoint lists.
Step 1
Here I have used an Employee details list as in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Employee Details List
Step 2
Click List menu item in the top navigation and click List settings as in Figure 2.
Figure 2: List Settings
Step 3
Click Save list as template as in Figure 3.
Figure 3: Save List as template
Step 4
Enter the file name and template name as in Figure 4. If you need contents (list items) of the list item select include content checkbox. And click the OK button.
Figure 4: Enter template name
Step 5
The screen as in Figure 5 will appear. The list template is saved in the list template gallery. Click the list template gallery link and it automatically goes to the list template gallery list.
Figure 5: Template Saved
The List template gallery shows as in Figure 6.
Figure 6: List Template gallery
Note: Here I used the list template in the same site collection. If you need a different site collection then download the list template and insert the list template into the list template gallery for a specific site collection.
Step 6
Go to Site Contents and click add an app item as in Figure 7.
Figure 7: SiteContents
Select your list template menu item as in Figure 8.
Figure 8: Select your list template
Enter the name of new list as in Figure 9 and click the Create button.
The created list will show in Site Contents.
Figure 9: Enter name of new list
Once clicked the new list shows the list items.
Figure 10: Site Contents
Summary
In this article we explored how to backup and restore the SharePoint 2013 lists.
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