How can a make a copy of a Site Collection and to another Web Application?

Question

How can a make a copy of a Site Collection and to another Web Application?

Answer 1

Hi @Michael Williams ,

Please follow the below steps:

• Ensure that you have enough space available on the server.
• Open SharePoint PowerShell and ensure that you are running it as administrator.
• First take backup of the source site collection as below:

Backup-SPSite https://source-sitecoll-url -Path "C:\Backup\sourcesitecollection.bak" 

     This command will take the backup of the site collection and store it inside the `bak` file on the server.

• After that create a new web application (skip this if already created).
• Now create an empty site collection in the new web application.
• After that you can restore it as below:

Restore-SPSite https://destination-sitecoll-url -Path "C:\Backup\sourcesitecollection.bak" -Force

     This will restore the site collection from the backup file. Here, `Force` parameter is optional.

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