I recently added a new site collection to a SharePoint 2013 environment and attached a restored content database from a different environment (also 2013).
The process involved was:
- backup SP database on original environment
- restore database to new environment
- add restored db as new content database in SP
- create new site collection to use the new db
It all worked fine, with no issues occurring, but when I view the Site Contents in SP, the only libraries visible are the standard ones (Documents, Site Assets, Site Pages, etc) - none of the libraries that were part of the restored database appear. A count of AllDocs confirms that the documents are in the db - it's just there are no libraries showing.
I can confirm in the Site Collection List in SP Central Admin that the new site collection is pointing to the right db. I've also double checked this from PowerShell using:
$site=Get-SPSite "http://<sp_url>"
write-host $site.ContentDatabase.Name
Did I do something wrong? Or miss something out?
The backup and restore of the original SP database was done by the DBAs and was pretty lengthy due to its size (~3.8TB), so I'm really hoping this doesn't have to get re-done!
Thanks...
