I am trying to recover some content from a content DB. I can see the site collection in CA’s “recover from an unattached content database”.
Next I created a new Webapp, and used my restored DB as the DB.
Managed paths shows the specific managed path needed, it could only have done this by reading the content DB as I didn’t configure that.
However, When I go to CA’s “View All Site Collections” it is missing.
Has anyone run into this?
Hi Jack,
Try using either PowerShell/STSADM command to take backup of contetnt database (attached with web application) and then restore it on different web application using again PowerShell/STSADM.
Your content database has now new GUID and it will work fine within same FARM environent.
I’ll be repeating myself to you, Jack, but I’ll put this here for completeness. Â Site Collections have a GUID that needs to be unique to the farm. Â If a content database is restored to a different Web App on the same farm as the original content database containing the site collection, the restored content database will not show that restored site collection as the GUIDs are duplicated.
Suggestions are to either restore to an alternate farm, or delete the source site collection (/content database if applicable) and then restore the new content database.
