Mar 06 2020 11:58 AM - edited Mar 06 2020 12:14 PM
So let me start by admitting sometimes I do stupid things. We were collapsing our SharePoint 2010 farm a few months ago but instead of just turning everything off I started deleting web applications as they were migrated off. Fast forward to today and I learn another application has some of it js files and custom css files in a folder in a web application that I deleted. No problem I think, I'll just recreate the web application and mount the content database then I'll be able to recover these files and move them somewhere else.
Or so I thought. I created the web application indicating the original content database as it's database. When it's complete the web app isn't accessible and the content database shows 0 sites.
How do i recover from this?
Mar 07 2020 08:15 PM
Mar 09 2020 06:09 AM
@Steve Knutson , thank you for your reply. I followed your steps but still had no luck. I removed the restored database from the Web Application, created and new content database and created a site collection on the root of the web app(which is where the site collection I need was originally created) I then navigated to the new site and all was well so far. I then removed the newly created content database and mounted the restored database. CA shows no site collection on the database. On examination, I confirmed the restored database does contain a site collection it just isn't picked up in CA.
Did I miss something?