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Restore SharePoint MySites from Backup

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All managers from the company were waked with this emails like: Subject: The My Site of X Y is scheduled for deletion The My Site of X Y is scheduled for deletion in 14 days. As their manager you are now the temporary owner of their site. This temporary ownership gives you access to the site to copy any business-related information you might need. To access the site use this URL: https://mysites.portal.domain.local/personal/xy Pretty uncomfortable. The day before this I deleted the AD Sync Connection from SharePoint's User Profile Service Application and this caused it. The sync job ran and with no connections SP thought that all the users have been deleted. Theoretically there should be 14 days until these profiles are deleted but for some reason I can't see past activity for the use users. Long story short, I need to restore MySites from a backup .   The Process The restoring process is simpler than thought. Later I found out that I had to restore the User Profi...