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.