SharePoint Variation - Site Collection Back up & Restore

Question

Dears,

I have SharePoint 2019 and the SharePoint variation was configured (2 labels created) and I need to back up the site collection and restore it in a different web application, so my question is, what is the best practices to do this action (Backup & Restore with variation) in new web application.

Note: Site collection template used is: Publishing Portal

Best Regards,
Mohamad

Answer 1

@Mohammad Bahsoun

Here're steps.

1.Backup the site collection by using stsadm.

stsadm -o backup -url http://sp19/sites/publishingportal -filename myBackup.bckSee  

2.Create a new web application 81. Then create a new site collection named publishingportal in the new web application 81.
3.Go to the new site collection named publishingportal in the new web application 81, then create variation lables same as which created in the site you backup.
4.Restore your backup and overwrite by using stsadm.

stsadm -o restore -url http://sp19:81/sites/publishingportal -filename myBackuptest.bckSee –overwrite  

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