OneDrive and sites read-only maintenance error

I came across an interesting issue recently while I was backing up a site collection via SharePoint Management shell & the backup process was abnormally terminated. This resulted in the Site being in Read only mode & the following message would show up when users browsed to the site.

"We apologize for the inconvenience, but we've made OneDrive and sites read-only while we do some maintenance."



I have no clue how to get out of this situation. When I searched for the solution everyone is talking about SharePoint online but I got this on SharePoint on-premise.

But at last, I found the solution for this. Because of abnormally terminated backup process, the site collection went to read-only mode.



Technically, it has put site to maintenance mode. I ran following script to make it normal.

$Admin = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPSiteAdministration("site collection url")
$Admin.ClearMaintenanceMode()


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