Note the following when you perform restores:
Administer restores from the NetBackup master server or the SharePoint front-end server.
When you select items for restore, select the items from the Contents of pane, not the All Folders pane.
Note that during a SharePoint 2003 portal recovery, a 2-minute delay occurs before the Index Files or the Index database is restored. This delay allows previously restored databases to be committed.
The Configuration database contains all of the configuration information for the entire SharePoint server farm . Use caution when you restore this database; upon restore, any changes are lost that you made to the farm topology after the backup was performed.