Microsoft Knowledge Base Article
This article contents is Microsoft Copyrighted material.
©2005-©2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Terms
of Use |
Trademarks
Article ID: 823267 - Last Review: May 31, 2007 - Revision: 2.5
You cannot restore databases to the original server when you use the SharePoint Portal Server Data Backup and Restore tool
When you use the SharePoint Portal Server Data Backup and Restore tool to back up and restore portal data in a server farm deployment of SharePoint Portal Server, you may find that you cannot restore databases to the original server. There is not an option in the SharePoint Portal Server Data Backup and Restore tool to do so. However, you can use the SharePoint Portal Server Data Backup and Restore tool to restore databases to other servers in the server farm.
For example, if you back up portal data in a server farm deployment of SharePoint Portal Server that has one database server, and you add a content database server and a component database server, there is not an option in the SharePoint Portal Server Data Backup and Restore tool to restore databases from the backup to the original server. However, you can restore databases from the backup to either of the two database servers that you later added to your server farm.
To work around this problem, provision a non-configuration database on the original server, and then restore the databases to the servers that you want in the server farm.
You can back up and restore a server farm, a portal, or individual components of a SharePoint Portal Server deployment by using the SharePoint Portal Server Data Backup and Restore tool. You must run the SharePoint Portal Server Data Backup and Restore tool from a front-end Web server in the server farm.
For more information about how to back up and restore SharePoint Portal Server data, see the "Backup and Restore" topic in the
Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Administration Guide. The
Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Administration Guide is located in the
Docs folder in the root folder of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 CD-ROM.
For more information about SharePoint Portal Server, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003
| kbbackup kbnofix kbbug KB823267 |
Community Feedback System
Very often, it takes hours to solve a problem. Very often, you've looked high
and low, and have tried a lot of solutions. When you finally found it, chances
are, it was because someone else helped you. Here's your chance to give back.
Use our community feedback tool to let others know what worked for you and what
didn't.
Please also understand that the community feedback system is not warranted to be
correct, it's simply a system that we've built to let people try and help each
other. If something in a feedback response doesn't make sense to you, or you're
not comfortable making changes that the feedback talks about (like registry
edits), please consult a professional.
Thank you for using kbAlertz.com Feedback System.
-- Scott Cate