Backup and Restore the SharePoint Site Collection Using Management Shell

In this article, I would like to share the command for taking a backup of a SharePoint site collection and how to restore the SharePoint site collection using the Management Shell.

Backup

The following is the procedure to take the backup of a SharePoint site collection.

Step 1: Open the SharePoint Management Shell from Microsoft SharePoint products.



Step 2: Then click on the SharePoint 2013 Management Shell, you will get the Management Shell window as shown below:



Step 3: Write the following command in the Management Shell to back up a site collection:

Backup-spsite



Step 4: Then enter the SharePoint site collection URL in “Identity” as shown below:

Identity: http://ils-kaviyab:55555/ < URL>

Step 5: Then provide the Windows Explorer path to save your backup as in the following:

Path: <path>\<backupfilename>.bak

 

Then press the Enter key to take the backup. The site backup will be completed successfully.

 

Restore

The following is the procedure to restore a SharePoint site collection.

Step 1: Open the SharePoint Management Shell, then write the following command in the Management Shell to restore a site collection:

restore-spsite

 

Step 2: Then enter the SharePoint web application URL in “Identity” as shown below:

Identity: http://ils-kaviyab:22222/ <URL >

 

Step 3: Then provide the backup path to restore your backup and press the Enter key, you will get options as shown in the following image.

Path: <path>\<backupfilename>.bak

 

Step 4: Then provide [A] – Yes to the all option to restore the entire site collection:

 

Press the Enter key to restore the site collection, then the site collection will be restored successfully.

 

Summary

In this article we explored how to take the backup of a SharePoint site collection and restore the site collection.