Restore a deleted SharePoint Site Collection without a recent backup

Accidentally deleted a SharePoint site collection? No problem, you can restore it without resorting to database backups.

Solution:

Start SharePoint Management Shell as Administrator and run command Get-SPdeletedsite. You will see your site collection here with Site ID


Now restore the site collection using this site ID Restore-SPDeletedSite –Identity “ID"


Site Collection is back!