Is this scenario even possible? Â I took a backup of a top-level site collection’s content database and would like to restore that to a site collection with a managed path in the same web application (basically clone the top level site to another site collection in the same web app). Â For example: Â Copy www.sitename.com to www.sitename.com/sites/site1.
I’ve noticed that the Mount-SPContentDatabase command will let you specify the web application to mount to, but not a site collection?  If I run this, won’t it just overwrite my existing content database at the root level?  Is there any way to tell it to use the /sites/site1 site collection instead?  Or is my only option to create a separate web application?
Your insight is greatly appreciated!
Create new site collection at desired destination address
Backup-spsite against source site
Restore-spsite to site collection created in step 1
Now the above should be fine if you plan on deleting the original site collection or move it to another environment but if not you may get conflicting guid, so to combat that I would use export/import spweb against the root web of the site collection
