Move site collection to another Farm

Hi

We have two SharePoint 2013 Farms and we are trying to Move a site collection (with all content) from one SharePoint farm  to another SharePoint Farm. Both the Farms have their own DB servers.

Can pls suggest how this can be achieved. Please elaborate the steps with any commands if applicable.

Thanks in advance.

September 1st, 2015 4:25pm

Simply perform a backup and restore, if the sites are under ~75GB:

Backup-SPSite http://siteCollectionUrl -NoSiteLock -Path C:\backupfile.bak

Restore-SPSite http://newFarmSiteCollectionUrl -Path C:\backupfile.bak
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September 1st, 2015 5:51pm

I hope Trevor clarifies your concern to get this job done.

You can move site collections between databases in a SharePoint 2013 farm by using Windows PowerShell. You can also move site collections by using Backup and Restore procedures: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc825328.aspx

Moreover, If you wish then please have a  look on this earlier discussed thread that might helps you to get in more details - SharePoint 2013 moving site collection content database between farms: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/7b0d8948-8823-4296-a8df-40e906112edc/sharepoint-2013-moving-site-collection-content-database-between-farms?forum=sharepointadmin

How to copy site collection to another server: http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/52780/how-to-copy-site-collection-to-another-server

If you wish you may also take help from this solution which lets you to move site collections between databases in SharePoint without any interruption.

Hope it helps you!





September 2nd, 2015 2:50am

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