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Chapter 28: Disaster Recovery in SharePoint <strong>Products</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Technologies</strong> 755<br />

it will not apply a Windows SharePoint Services site template to the site, <strong>and</strong><br />

the site can be used to restore sites that were backed up.<br />

■ Using the Windows SharePoint Services Object Model.<br />

At this point, the SharePoint Migration Tool can be used to restore a site or site<br />

collection. To restore a site or site collection, you use the SharePoint Migration Tool<br />

with the following parameters:<br />

smigrate.exe -r -w -f -u -pw ]<br />

The –r parameter restores a site to a new location.<br />

SharePoint Portal Server Data Backup <strong>and</strong> Restore Utility<br />

The SharePoint Portal Server Data Backup <strong>and</strong> Restore utility is installed by default<br />

when SharePoint Portal Server is installed. You must run the SharePoint Portal Server<br />

Data Backup <strong>and</strong> Restore utility from the server itself in a single server scenario or<br />

from any of the front-end Web servers in a server farm scenario. SQL Server 2000 Client<br />

Tools must also be installed on the server from which backups <strong>and</strong> restores are performed.<br />

The SharePoint Portal Server Data Backup <strong>and</strong> Restore utility performs the<br />

following functions:<br />

■ Backs up <strong>and</strong> restores all databases within the server farm or all databases of<br />

a single portal site. That is, all databases except the configuration database.<br />

■ Restores content indexes <strong>and</strong> content sources on the corporate portal site.<br />

■ Backs up Windows SharePoint Services site databases.<br />

■ Supports moving a portal site from one farm to another.<br />

■ Restores an index server.<br />

Note The configuration database is not included in the backup because it<br />

would be impossible to guarantee a successful restore of it. The configuration<br />

database that is to be restored would need to match the existing topology<br />

exactly. Furthermore, existing team sites stored across all the content<br />

databases would have to match exactly the sites in the configuration database<br />

being restored. Because there is no way to guarantee this, it is useless<br />

to back up the configuration database. The correct restore procedure<br />

indicates that you must rebuild your farm—which will rebuild the configuration<br />

database <strong>and</strong> ensures a new configuration database is created that is<br />

guaranteed to work.

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