The following points apply to the recovery of Windows SharePoint Services data:

• Item details will not appear on the Recovery Wizard Summary page for Windows SharePoint Services sites and items.
  
  
• The administration content database is the first content database created with the administration central site when you set up your farm. Do not directly recover the administration content database because this could lead to data corruption in the Windows SharePoint Services farm.
  
  
• Do not directly recover the Config database because this could lead to data corruption in the Windows SharePoint Services farm.
  
  
• The recovery point times on the Browse tab may differ from the times on the Search tab for Windows SharePoint Services data. The Search tab lists the correct recovery point time for sites, documents, and folders. The Browse tab displays the backup time for the farm.
  
  
• Documents in Windows SharePoint Services could be in one of the following states if document versioning is enabled:
  
  
  • Created not checked in - Visible only to the creator
    
    
  • Checked in - Visible to administrator and users with permission to publish
    
    
  • Published - Visible to users with permission to approve
    
    
  • Approved - Visible to all viewers
    
    
  When you recover Windows SharePoint Services data, only documents that are checked in, published, or approved are recovered. The following documents are not backed up and hence cannot be restored:
  
  
  • Documents not checked in on the user machine.
    
    
  • Documents either in the user Recycle Bin or in the site collection Recycle Bin.
    
    
  You cannot restore documents removed from the recycle bin through a site collection restore. You have to do a farm restore to a version where the documents were deleted and put in the recycle bin.
  
  

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