Site collection Backup/Restore SharePoint Management Shell commands

There are a lot of ways to take backup of a Site collection/Web application but frequently used method is using SharePoint Management Shell.

1) Backup Command:

         Backup-SPSite -Identity http://ABC:2020 -Path C:/Mybackups/Mywebapp.bak -Force

Where http://ABC:2020 is the URLof the desired web application/site collection for taking backup and C:/Mybackups/Mywebapp.bak is the path to the physical drive where want to keep the backup.

2) Restore Command:

         Restore-SPSite -Identity http://XYZ:3030 -Path C:/Mybackups/Mywebapp.bak -Force

Now http://XYZ:3030 is the URL of desired web application/site collection and C:/Mybackups/Mywebapp.bak 
is the location of backup.