Restoring previous versions of documents from SharePoint 2001 workspace backups

The SHADOW folder, at the root of the workspace, contains previous versions of the documents that exist in the workspace at the time of backup. If you select the SHADOW folder to include in a workspace backup, you can have access to the previous versions of the documents in the workspace. However, you cannot restore the previous versions directly back into the workspace. You must restore them to an alternate location and then manually copy them into the workspace.

To restore previous versions of documents from workspace backups

  1. On the navigation bar, click the arrow next to Restore.

  2. Click New Restore Job.

  3. Navigate to the backup sets that contain the workspace data from which you want to restore.

  4. Under the backup set, expand the SHADOW folder and then navigate to the folder that contains the documents you want to restore.

  5. Redirect the restored workspace data to a file path.

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Redirecting restored SharePoint 2001 workspace data to a file path