Restore-SPSite : Your backup is from a different version of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation and cannot be restored

Question

While restoring SharePoint 2010 site collection backup on dev server, I am getting below error, where my dev server has latest patches updates with SP2 and later.

Restore-SPSite : Your backup is from a different version of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation and cannot be restored to a server running the current version. The backup file should be restored to a server with version '4.0.146.0' or later.

As you can see on below attached screenshot that web application on dev server has latest sharepoint foundation version

Answer 1

As content DB source and destination Site Collection backup are of different SQL Sever version, so I have to restore DB backup and restore on DB for Dev machine and then attach that DB with my Dev sharepoint site as mentioned here SharePoint restore fails because of newer version

Answer 2

First, check the patch level of your source and destination environment. Make sure your destination environment is not at a lower version than the source. If so, you may need to patch your environment as same as your source.

Steps to Check Database Schema Versions:

Central Administration application > Management > Manage content databases. Select the database where you want to restore. Click on the DB name under “Database Versioning and Upgrade”.

For more information refer the below link,

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/30500.sharepoint-troubleshooting-your-backup-is-from-a-different-version-error-while-restoring-the-site.aspx

Answer 3

You can check the SharePoint database status by doing the following:

Central Administration > Upgrade & Migration > Review database status->Below “Status” column, check the action required for each SharePoint Database.

Run the below cmdlet to upgrade all content database that still needs upgrade:

Get-SPContentDatabase | ?{$_.NeedsUpgrade -eq $true} | Upgrade-SPContentDatabase