Restoring individual SharePoint 2007 items from full database backups to their original locations

You can restore individual documents, images, and list items from full SharePoint database backup jobs if you selected the following option during the backup job:

Use Backup Exec Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) to enable the restore of individual documents from the database backup (available for full backups only).

See How to restore individual items by using Granular Recovery Technology.

The option to enable the restore of individual documents is not available for differential backup jobs.

To restore individual documents from full database backups to their original locations

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

  2. Click New Restore Job.

  3. On the View by Resource tab, expand the server farm that contains the Web application where the individual documents you want to restore reside.

  4. Expand Windows SharePoint Services Application.

  5. Expand the Web application that contains the content database from which you want to restore documents.

  6. Expand the content database that contains the documents you want to restore.

  7. Expand the backup set that contains the documents you want to restore.

  8. Expand the content database.

  9. Expand the folder that contains the documents you want to restore.

  10. In the Results pane, select the documents that you want to restore.

  11. In the Restore Job Properties pane, under Settings, click Microsoft SharePoint.

  12. Do one of the following:

    If versioning is enabled on the restore destination

    If versioning is enabled on the destination to which you are restoring an individual item, select one of the following options:

    • Add as a new version

      Backup Exec restores the existing item as a new version, making it the most recent version of the existing item.

    • Skip if the item exists

      Backup Exec does not restore the item if an identical item exists in the restore destination. Backup Exec notes that the file was skipped in the job log.

    • Restore over existing items

      Backup Exec replaces the existing item with the restored item.

    If versioning is not enabled on the restore destination

    If versioning is not enabled on the destination to which you are restoring an individual item, select one of the following options:

    • Skip if the item exists

      Backup Exec does not restore the item if an identical item exists in the restore destination. Backup Exec notes that the file was skipped in the job log.

    • Restore over existing items

      Backup Exec replaces the existing item with the restored item.

  13. In the Restore Job Properties pane, select other restore options as needed.

  14. Do one of the following:

    To run the job now

    Click Run Now.

    To schedule the job to run later

    Do the following in the order listed:

    • In the Properties pane, under Frequency, click Schedule.

    • Set the scheduling options.

    • Click Submit.

      See Scheduling jobs.