1) Open the Central Administration

2) Click the Backup and Restore link in the Quick Launch

3) Under the Granular Backup heading, click Recover data from an unattached content database

4) On the Unattached Content Database Data Recovery page, specify:

Database Server Name

Database Name

Choose Browse Content in Choose Operation section

5) On the browse content page change the site collection and choose the collection whose data you want to recover. Then specify the specific site and which data parts (lists) you want to recover.

6) Once you’re done with that you need to specify the path for share folder and click the start export.

7) This will create the .cmp extension file in your target folder which holds the data of the particular site which was deleted by you.

This image will be helpful in explaining you the above steps:

In my upcoming article I will show how to restore the .cmp file to any new site…

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