Restoring a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web application to its original location

You can restore a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web application to its original location.

See About restoring resources for SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Services 3.0.

Use the following steps to restore a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web application to its original location.

Note:

When you restore a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web application, all documents that are contained in the Web application’s content databases are overwritten.

To restore a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web application to its original location

  1. On the navigation bar, click the arrow next to Restore.

  2. Click New Restore Job.

  3. Expand the server farm that contains the Web application that you want to restore.

  4. Expand Windows SharePoint Services Application.

  5. Expand the Web application that you want to restore.

  6. Expand the content database, and then select the backup set that contains the content database that you want to restore.

    If the Web application contains multiple content databases, expand the other content databases and select the corresponding backup sets for those databases as well.

  7. In the Restore Job Properties pane, under Settings, click Microsoft SharePoint.

  8. Check Bring restored databases online.

  9. Check Reconnect previous database links.

  10. In the Restore Job Properties pane, select other restore options as needed.

  11. Do one of the following:


    To run the job now

    Click Run Now.

    To schedule the job to run later

    Do the following in the order listed:

    • In the Properties pane, under Frequency, click Schedule.

    • Set the scheduling options.

    • Click Submit.

      See Scheduling jobs.

Restoring a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web application to its original location