How the NetBackup Recovery Assistant restores SharePoint Server, SharePoint Foundation, and Windows SharePoint Services

The NetBackup Recovery Assistant launches a restore job for each database in a Web application or for each database in a SharePoint 2003 portal site or team site. Databases are restored in the proper order to ensure that a working Web application or portal exists when the restore is complete. After all the databases are restored any items you selected are restored in a single job. If a SharePoint 2003 Index database is restored or redirected with any other database, the Recovery Assistant pauses the restore process for two minutes. The pause in the restore lets the commits of the database and the portal site or team site to take effect. After the two minutes elapse, the Index database is restored.

For SharePoint 2010, the Recovery Assistant restores objects in the following order:

Configuration databases (only if assistant is run in disaster recovery mode)
Content databases
Services databases
Index Files
Document sets, documents, lists, etc.

For SharePoint 2007, the Recovery Assistant restores objects in the following order:

Configuration databases (only if assistant is run in disaster recovery mode)
Content databases
Services databases
Index Files
Single Sign-on databases
Documents, lists, etc.

For SharePoint 2003, the Recovery Assistant restores objects in the following order:

Configuration databases (only if assistant is run in disaster recovery mode)
Content databases
Services databases
User Profile databases
Team databases
Index databases
Single Sign-on databases

Objects are skipped if they are not found in the database configuration. Each restore may only restore a portion of the components depending on what objects you select and the backup image you select. When you restore an item, it does not restore an entire Content database or Document library.