Restore a farm by using Central Administration (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0)

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Applies To: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

 

Topic Last Modified: 2008-07-18

This procedure can help you restore a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 server farm by using the SharePoint Central Administration Web site. Using this procedure, the farm is restored to its original location. If you want to migrate your farm, see Move and migrate servers and server farms (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0).

Restore a farm by using the SharePoint Central Administration Web site

Important

Membership in the Farm Administrators SharePoint group is the minimum necessary to complete this procedure.

Restore to the original server farm

  1. On the SharePoint Central Administration Web site, on the Operations page, in the Backup and Restore section, click Restore from Backup.

  2. On the Select Backup Location page, in the Backup File Location section, type the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path to the backup folder.

  3. On the Select Backup Package to Restore page, select the backup file you want to use to restore, and then click Continue Restore Process.

  4. On the Select Component to Restore page, select the farm you want to restore, and then click Continue Restore Process.

  5. On the Select Restore Options page:

    1. In the Restore Component section, Ensure that Farm is displayed.

    2. In the Restore Options section, select Same configuration.
      A message is displayed, notifying you that the current farm will be overwritten. Click OK.

    3. In the Login Names and Passwords section, type the user name and password for your Farm Administrators account.

    4. In the New Names section, type new names and URLs for each component, or accept the default values.

    5. Click OK.

See Also

Concepts

Restore a farm by using built-in tools (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0)
Restore a farm by using the Stsadm command-line tool (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0)