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Restore Configuration Settings

You can configure the restore settings using the Submit button on the Restore Manager.

SharePoint 2007 Agent Restore Configuration dialog

The dialog contains the following information:

Type of restore

Lets you to keep the same restore Name and Location after restore or a different one.

Login names and passwords

Lets you to configure who can login to the Farm, Web Application, and SharePoint Service Provider. This credential information is always required to restore the data.

Name and Location

Lets you configure so that the name or location or both so that of one or more components will have new name or location after a backup job has been restored

Different components have different configuration items for name and location. The following table lists the components and their configuration items:

Component Type

Configuration Item

Comment

Database

  • New database Server Name

 

  • New directory name

 

  • New database name
  • The SQL database server you want to restore the database to. It could be an alias name.
  • The new physical path that stores the SQL database files.
  • The new name of the database after restore.

UserProfileApplication

New server name

The new My Site address of UserProfileApplication after restore.

Shared Search Index

  • New server name
  • New directory name
  • The computer name where the Office Search Index service is running.
  • The new physical path where the index files are stored.

Web Application

  • New web application URL

 

  • New web application Name
  • The URL of the Web Application website
  • The new name of the web application that is displayed in IIS.