Friday, March 30, 2012

Version error restoring SharePoint site collection backup

Recently I tried restoring a site collection backup and got the (dreaded) error:
"Your backup is from a different version of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation and cannot be restored to a server running the current version. The backup file should be restored to a server with version _____ or later."

So I installed the service packs and cumulative updates.  Still didn't work.  It may be because I overshot the cumulative update of the backup.  Then tried creating a fresh application and site collection, instead of trying to restore over a site collection that was there before the updates.  That worked!

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