I have a SP2013 Farm and today we had a site collection with lots of lookup fields in lists get corrupted. The lists have lost their referential integrity. So - I figured that we could restore that site collection from last night's backup. We restored the content database backup to another SQL server and then I went into Central Admin and did the Recover Data from an Unattached Database. I found the Site Collection from the backup file and backed-up the site collection to a file on a fileshare.
In order to test the backup file, I created a new web application on the same server and created the same paths. The original path was http://reinfonet/apps/data and the new path is http://spweb1:8282/apps/data
When I run the following command:
Restore-SPSite -identity http://spweb1:8282/apps/data -path c:\spback\datasc.bak -Force
I get the following error:
Restore-SPSite : <nativehr>0x80070003</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack>
At line:1 char:1
+ Restore-SPSite -identity http://spweb1:8282/sites/data -path c:\spbak\datasc.bak ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (Microsoft.Share...dletRestoreSite:SPCmdletRestoreSite) [Restore-SPSite], DirectoryNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletRestoreSite
All searching on the internet says that the versions might be different, but that is usually when someone is trying to restore into a different farm. I'm restoring from a backup of the same farm.
Any ideas? I'm stuck and this is a production site collection.
