Redirecting a restore of a SharePoint Web application to another farm
A Web application restore can be redirected within the same farm or to a different farm. For instructions on how to redirect within a farm, see the following topic:
See Redirecting a restore of a SharePoint web application within a farm.
Note the following when you redirect a Web application to another farm:
The Web application target to which you want to redirect the restore must already exist on the specified Web server. It also must have the same number of content databases as the source Web application.
The target Web application and SQL Server database name must have new names (different from original names).
The SharePoint version from the source farm must match the SharePoint version of the destination farm.
You can only redirect a Web application from a full backup. Redirection is not supported from differential backups.
The Web applications must be restored at the database level.
The destination SharePoint farm nodes must be in the NetBackup domain.
In the host properties for the master server, configure the Distributed Application Restore Mapping settings.
These settings must contain the mapping for the destination farm. A distributed application must have all the farm nodes of the destination SharePoint farm mapped as components of the source SharePoint front end.
The Windows Client Properties for the destination farm nodes must be set for SharePoint for all nodes in the farm.
A NetBackup client must be installed on all nodes of the destination farm.
You cannot complete a redirected restore if the SQL Server databases exist across multiple SQL hosts.
You must restore all redirected Web application SQL Server databases in one operation at the same time.
You cannot redirect a Web application to the same farm more than once. This restriction ensures SQL Server database ID uniqueness.
The SharePoint version of the source and destination must be the same.
The SQL version of the source and destination must be the same.
You must manually restore from the MS-Windows backup image any custom Web parts that were created on the file system. These components are not backed up with the MS-SharePoint policy. (For example, you must manually restore
C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\port number.)
To redirect a restore of a SharePoint Web application to another farm
- Log on as Administrator.
- Create the target Web application on the target Web server.
- Open the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface.
- Click File > Select Files and Folders to Restore > from Normal Backup.
- Select the MS-SharePoint policy type.
- From the NetBackup History pane, select the full backup image that contains the objects you want to restore.
- In the All Folders pane, expand Microsoft SharePoint Resources.
Note:
When you select items to restore, do not check the checkbox for an item in the All folders pane. Only check the checkbox for an item in the Contents of pane.
- In the Contents of pane, select the Web application to redirect.
- Click Actions > Restore.
- In the Restore Marked Files dialog box, click the Microsoft SharePoint tab.
- Check Redirect SharePoint Resources.
- Click Web application.
- In the URL box, type the URL of the destination site:
http://webapp:port
Use the URL that appears in SharePoint Central Administration.
- In the Front end web server name box, indicate the host name of the target Web server.
- Click Start Restore.
