Warning: This procedure is for catastrophic farm recovery only. Restoring the entire farm removes the existing farm. Once a catastrophic farm restore is done, you must reconfigure all farm accounts and settings. Before performing catastrophic farm recovery, attempt to restore items using To restore SharePoint items from backup. This procedure is supported for single servers deployed with the single server installation type only. To check your installation type, see To determine the SharePoint installation type. |
1 Select the desired SharePoint application in the Navigation pane and click Restore.
2 Select a Recovery Point Day from which the farm will be restored by clicking on the calendar. Available days display in bold.
3 Select a restore time and click Next (Select Options).
Select from available times in the Recovery Point Times table or by clicking a wedge of time on the 24-hour circle.
4 In the Restore from Backup of Client pane, select Restore to Original SharePoint Server and click Restore.
5 To confirm you understand that the existing farm will be deleted and a new one created, check I understand... and click Confirm.
The Restore Status page indicates whether the restore has been queued successfully. Click Okay to close.
6 To monitor the restore job, select Settings > System Monitoring > Jobs.
• The restore job displays in the grid. In a successful restore, status changes from Queued to Active to Successful.
• If you see status Cancelled and job comment Share is unavailable, the restore could not run because a share has already been created for this farm and is in use by another backup or restore job. See SharePoint share is unavailable to determine what process is using the share and how to proceed.