Restore a Deleted Site Collection
Scenario/Problem: You need to restore a previously deleted site collection on your SharePoint farm.
Solution: Use the Restore-SPDeletedSite cmdlet with a deleted site collection variable.
The Restore-SPDeletedSite cmdlet enables you to restore a deleted site collection from the current farm. Use this in conjunction with the Get-SPDeletedSite cmdlet (explained in a previous section), as shown in Listing 8.23, or just use the site collection identity directly in line, as shown in Listing 8.24.
Listing 8.23. Restoring a Deleted Site Collection Using a Variable
$deletedSiteCol = Get-SPDeletedSite -Identity "/ sites/deletedsitecol"Restore-SPDeletedSite $deletedSiteCol
Listing 8.24. Restoring a Deleted Site Collection ...
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