Restoring SharePoint 2010 after complete failure

Published by Jacob Martin on October 11, 2014

Corruption is the common issue in SharePoint that can even lead to data loss.  SharePoint server helps the user to store useful databases such as website, search engines, content management, and article. It stores your data in an organized and secure way for sharing purpose. And you can easily access the data stored from any device that support web. But due to some reason the database gets corrupted. In a very short span of time Microsoft SharePoint 2010 became popular. But due to some mismanagement and carelessness user generally face corruption issue in it.

Here you have once such issue that plays their major role behind the corruption:  Just imagine you faced a massive network failure and lost some virtual servers alongwith SharePoint. You managed to get the other servers backups and by restring from the backups. But you didn’t have the backup of SharePoint 2010 database. As you didn’t have the backup so it was impossible to get the data. Data loss is a heartbreaking situation for any user. Now the question that will arise in your mind is that do I need to create new site collection and create new databases. Ofcourse no! You don’t need to create new databases all you need is to recover SharePoint server’s operating system.

For this you can use MS SharePoint Repair Tool that is capable of recovering the SharePoint server. But before moving into the recovery process let’s find out the reason behind the corruption:

• Virus Attack
• Human Neglect
• Power Failure
• Server Error

Virus attack is most common reason behind the corruption. So it’s always advised to use a powerful anti-spyware software. Virus can easy infect your system and files or pass them to any third party. Human Error is also the reason behind the corruption sometime due to carelessness or mismanagement we lose our data and later on regret. Abrupt system shut down can also corrupt your database. So it’s always recommended to shut the program properly.

These are the common scenario that plays their major behind the SharePoint server content database corruption and to resolve that you need a third party repair tool. MS SharePoint Repair Tool is the powerful repair tool that is capable of repairing and restoring any sort of corruption, damaged or inaccessible issue. It can easily repair and restore the corrupted database in a new healthy form. After downloading this repair tool you can easily resolve the issue. No need to worry if you don’t have a proper backup.  You can easily get the database in a healthy way.

how to Restore SharePoint 2010 after complete failure

1. Firstly launch the SharePoint Recovery Tool you would find an interface. This interface screen displays two options to recover SharePoint data: ‘Complete Repair’ and ‘Document Recovery’ Select as per your requirement.
2. If you choose ‘Complete Repair’, the screen will show the options for selecting and searching SQL Server (.MDF) files. Click on ‘Select File’ to select a SharePoint database for repair. If you do not know the actual path of the database which you want to repair, click on the ‘Search File’ to locate the MDF file in a specific drive. After selecting the desired file initiate the scanning process
3. After finishing the scan, the software would generate a tree of all SharePoint database tables and will display it in the left pane. You can select the table in the tree and can have the entire preview in the right pane. Then Click on ‘Repair’ to begin repairing for the selected database.
4. After clicking on ‘Repair’, this dialog box will appear. Specify the SQL Server name or Instance name and the desired destination path. Click on the ‘Browse’ option to choose the destination path. And select ‘OK’ button.
5. Once this process gets completed, you would find a dialog box that displays this message ‘Recovered file saved at the desired location. This shows that Recovery Process has successfully completed’. And select ‘OK’ button.
6. You would find another dialog box that asks whether you want to attach the repaired database to the web application. If you click on ‘Yes’ button, the above dialog box will be displayed. In the web application URL type, the name of the corrupt database and SQL Server Instance name. Then Select ‘OK’ button and proceed. When the process gets finished, you would be able to access the repaired database by opening the web application.