Hi there,
I'm having some major issues restoring a SharePoint database from a production server to a development machine. It's worked fine in the past but for some reason just isn't working now. The error message we are getting after the restore runs for about 2 hours is the delightfully generic:
Restore-SPSite : The site collection could not be restored. If this problem persists, please make sure the content databases are available and have sufficient free space.
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+ restore-spsite <<<< -identity http://richard/ -path c:\admin\backups\backup14052013.bak -force
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (Microsoft.Share...dletRestoreSite:
SPCmdletRestoreSite) [Restore-SPSite], SPException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletRestoreSite
I have checked and added disk space to the dev environment. There is now 30GB free, the database is only 50MB once backed up.
Steps taken are backup the site collection on the prod server, copy to dev, create a brand new web application and content database, create a new site collection (also tried without this step and still doesn't work), restore database using the following command:
restore-spsite -identity http://richard/ -path c:\admin\backups\backup14052013.bak -force
Both servers are running SharePoint 2010 and are fully up to date with Windows Updates and have had the Config wizard run since the last round of updates were installed. Both servers are running SQL Express 2008 R2 and the dev server has about 1.5GB of databases currently on it.
Does any one have any ideas, it's driving me mad and I'm running out of time rapidly to get this sorted.
Thanks,
Richard