Sharepoint server dismantled - VM Backup

Question

Hi All,

We have a situation - our production SP Farm got some issues because of which we dismantled it and tried creating a new farm with same web app, content Dbs, solutions but we are facing many issues in getting everything back as same as previous farm.

We do have VM backups, i am not sure if restoring VM to old date will make things fine? Will everything be fine as it was before Production farm going into a problem. We had 3 server - 1 WFE, 1 APP, 1 SQL Server. Should we restore all 3 servers or just WFE and APP.

Thank you !!

Answer 1

Hi Alok,

You can't use VM snapshots or backups with SharePoint. The best way i could think of restore your farm is from your previous Backup-spfarm. If in case you don't have the backup then you may to go with 3rd party backup or with SQL Backups. Below is the article that explains why it would be a problem with VM Backups:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/097fb93a-3086-4592-8974-06eefa4436bd/sharepoint-2013-farm-server-backup-and-recovery?forum=sharepointadmin

Thanks & Regards,

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sharath aluri

Answer 2

after restoring WFE and APP, clean SharePoint configuration cache, you may also run Production configuration wizard.

Answer 3

Hi Alok_Paul,

Agree with sharath's reply.

You can refer to the articles from Microsoft to backup and restore SharePoint farm:

Back up farms in SharePoint Server

Overview of backup and recovery in SharePoint Server

Best regards,

Grace Wang

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Answer 4

Hi Alok,

I’m checking how the things are going on about this thread. Whether the post helps you?

You can mark the post as answer if it helps.

Best regards,

Grace Wang

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