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  3. Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft SharePoint Server Administrator's Guide
  5. Performing backups and restores of SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation
  7. About restores of SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation
  9. Restore options for SharePoint Server on the Microsoft SharePoint tab
Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft SharePoint Server Administrator's Guide

Restore options for SharePoint Server on the Microsoft SharePoint tab

On this tab you can choose to bring databases online after a restore job. You can also specify a different location to which to redirect a web application. The farm and the web application to which you want to redirect the restore must already exist.

Table: Microsoft SharePoint tab

Option

Description

Bring restored databases online and reconnect previous database links

Select this option to bring the databases online after a restore job. This option also re-establishes the link between the restored databases and their corresponding web applications.

Preserve existing Internet Information Services (IIS) Web site and application pool

If the website and the application pool for the SharePoint web application that you restore already exists in IIS, this option preserves them during restore. If you do not check this option, the website and the application pool are deleted from IIS during the restore. After they are deleted, they are recreated in the default location that SharePoint specifies.

If versioning is enabled on the restore destination

If versioning is enabled on the destination to which you want to restore an individual item or document, select one of the following options:

  • Add as a new version

    NetBackup restores the existing item or document as a new version, which makes it the most recent version of the existing item. For example, assume that you have five versions of testfile.doc and choose to restore version 2.0 of the file. When the file is restored, it is added as testfile.doc 6.0 and is the most recent version.

  • Skip if the item exists

    NetBackup does not restore the item if an identical item or document exists in the restore destination. NetBackup notes that the file was skipped in the job log.

  • Restore over existing items

    NetBackup restores the existing item as a new version and deletes the existing version.

    For example, assume that the version history is as follows: 

    testfile.doc version 3.0
testfile.doc version 2.0
testfile.doc version 1.0

    testfile.doc version 3 is the most recent version. If you choose to restore testfile.doc version 2.0, the restore adds testfile.doc version 4.0 and deletes testfile.doc version 2.0. So the version history appears as follows: 

    testfile.doc version 4.0
testfile.doc version 3.0
testfile.doc version 1.0

    testfile.doc version 2.0 is now version 4.0 of the file.

If versioning is not enabled on the restore destination

If versioning is not enabled on the destination to which you want to restore an individual item, select one of the following options:

  • Skip if the item exists

    NetBackup does not restore the item if an identical item exists in the restore destination. NetBackup indicates that the file was skipped in the log.

  • Restore over existing items

    NetBackup replaces the existing item with the restored item.

Restore only the most recent version of an item

Check this option to only restore the most recent version of an item. Note that NetBackup restores the most recent version of the versions you selected for restore. If a more recent version exists, but you did not select it for restore that version is not restored.

Include security information

Check this option to restore any applicable security information with the item. Note that security information is restored only if you select a parent folder and not when you select individual items. For example, security information is restored when you select Shared Documents, but not if you select an individual document. However, an individual object can have user permissions that are defined with a level of "limited access." In this case, permissions for those users are not restored with that object.

You can restore different levels of security based on the SharePoint item you restore:

  • Sites

    User and SharePoint Group information and security ACL are restored for top-level sites.

  • Subsites

    Security ACL is restored.

  • Lists

    Security ACL and other security-related information are restored.

Redirect SharePoint Resources

Check this option to redirect a Web application. Then click one of the following:

  • Web application

  • Alternate SQL instance

  • Individual SharePoint sites, documents, lists, or items

Note that you can only redirect documents or pictures to a path.

Web application

Select this option to redirect a Web application to another Web application.

  • In the URL box, specify the URL of the destination site. For example:

    http://URL to Web application

  • In the Front end web server name box, indicate the host name of the web server to which you want to redirect. The web server must already exist on the destination location.

Alternate SQL instance

Note:

Select only one database to redirect. If you select multiple databases, all databases are written to the target database.

Select this option to redirect a web application to an alternate SQL instance.

In the SQL Server\Instance box, indicate the name of the target SQL Server and the target instance name.

In the Target Database box, indicate the name of the target database.

Individual SharePoint sites, documents, lists, or items

Note:

This feature applies only to SharePoint 2010.

Click Individual SharePoint sites, documents, lists, or items to redirect items.

In the Restore to drive or UNC path box, enter the drive letter and path or UNC path. Use the following format for a UNC path: \\servername\share.

More Information

Redirecting a restore of a SharePoint web application within a farm

Redirecting a restore of a SharePoint Web application to another farm

Redirecting the restore of a SharePoint Server Web application content database to an alternate SQL instance

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