Redirecting a restore of a SharePoint 2003 portal site or team site

A SharePoint 2003 portal site can be redirected to another site in the farm. A team site can be redirected to another WSS site. The target portal site or team site where you want to redirect the restore must already exist on the specified Web server. The target portal site or team site must also have the same database structure as the source site.

Note the following when you redirect a portal or a team site:

To redirect a restore of a SharePoint 2003 portal site or team site

  1. Log on as Administrator.

  2. Create the target portal site or the WSS site on the target Web server. The target site must have the same database structure as the source site.

  3. Open the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface.

  4. Choose File > Select Files and Folders to Restore > from Normal Backup.

  5. Select the MS-SharePoint policy type.

  6. From the NetBackup History pane, select the image(s) that contain the objects you want to restore:

    • The last full backup, or

    • The last full backup and all subsequent differential backups

  7. In the All Folders pane, expand Microsoft SharePoint Resources.

  8. In the Contents of pane, select the Web application, portal site, or team site to redirect.

  9. Select Actions > Restore.

  10. In the Restore Marked Files dialog box, click the Microsoft SharePoint tab.

  11. Select Redirect SharePoint Resources.

  12. Click SharePoint 2003 portal sites or SharePoint 2007 web applications.

  13. In the URL box, type the URL of the portal site or team site to which you want to redirect the restore. For example:

    http://portal

    http://team site

  14. In the Front end web server name box, indicate the hostname of the Web server.

  15. Click Start Restore.

More Information

Specifying the server, client, and the policy type for a SharePoint Server restore operation

Restore options for SharePoint Server