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Open the Central Administration site on a SharePoint server. Select Backup and Restore in the Quick Launch toolbar. Select the Restore from a backup option in the Farm Backup and Restore section. In the Backup and Restore History page, enter where your backup files are located in the Backup Directory Location text box.
Solution: Use the Restore-SPSite cmdlet. The Restore-SPSite cmdlet enables you to restore a site collection based on the backup file in the path specified, as shown in Listing 7.16. The Force switch parameter is needed to overwrite an existing site collection.
How to restore a database in SharePoint Server?
In the Restore Database dialog, on the General page, select the database to restore to from the To database drop-down list. Select the restore source from the From database drop-down list. In the Select the backup sets to restore section area, select the check box next to the database.
How to restore search service applications in SharePoint Server?
To restore the databases for a Search service application by using SQL Server tools Verify that the user account that you are using to restore the databases is a member of the SQL Server sysadmin fixed server role on the database server where each database is stored. Open SQL Server Management Studio and connect to the database server.
This tip discusses the Backup and Restore of a SharePoint farm, web applications and components from the Central Administration as well as from PowerShell and the STSADM command. Go to START -> All Programs -> Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products -> SharePoint 2010 Central Administration.
SharePoint Server restores remote Binary Large Objects (BLOB) stores but only if you are using the SQL Filestream remote BLOB store provider to place data in remote BLOB stores. If you are using another provider you must manually restore these remote BLOB stores.