Site collection Disaster Recovery?

Question

One of the Site collection Administrators has deleted the Site Collection mistakenly, so we want to restore it back. What would the best approach ?

Some of the SQL stuff:

• SQL Full backup -> Every day SQL
• Incremental backup -> Every hour

We have not implemented any SharePoint disaster recovery methods.

Answer 1

1. Restore the SQL DB containing the site collection
2. Create new web application (any host name or port will do)

3. Attach Content Database using

   stsadm -o addcontentdb -url http://URLofWindowsSharePointServicesSite -databasename DatabaseName -databaseserver DatabaseServer

4. You should be able to find your site collection in the web application

5. Using stsadm -o export -url [site-coll-new-url] -includeusersecurity -versions 4 export the full web application
6. Using stsadm -o import -url [site-coll-dest-url] -versions 2 import the site collection to your old web app.

Please verify the stsadm -o export and stsadm -o import syntax exactly. I am writing this off the top of my head.

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