A commonly required feature with SharePoint was the ability to backup and restore list items. Even though this was not possible in SharePoint 2007 MS has added this functionality to SharePoint 2010. For you to do this you need to follow two simple steps.
- First one backup the list item (can be done through power shell or central admin)
- Import the list item to the place you want to restore using power shell.
Lets look at how we can do this in detail.
1. Go to SharePoint 2010 central admin – Click on Backup and Restore (click on the main link here)
2. Under Granular backup section click on Export Site or List
3, In Site collection select the correct site collection – Under the site select the site that contain the list you want to export – and on the list select your list you want to export
4. Click on Start Export. (Make sure your timer job is running and it will complete with success)
5. Now to import make sure you have the same site collection and site created on the server you want to import. Because our option is to import a list so if the sites are not present you will not be able to import. So make sure you create them first with the same name.
6. Got to Start – All programs – SharePoint 2010 products and open SharePoint 2010 management shell
7. The cmdlet we are going to use for this is import-spweb. so type the following command on the power shell
import-spweb
identity:name of your site collection
path:path of your backup containing the list
8. All will complete successfully and you can view the log file for verification