Recovering WSS Indexes

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Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2007

System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 SP1 allows you to back up and restore indexes created by Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0.

Recovering WSS Indexes

You can recover WSS indexes to either the original location or as individual files to an alternate location.

Important

The farm administrator should have administrator rights on the index server. If this is not the case, DPM is not able to stop the search service to ensure a proper recovery.

Recovering to original location
The procedure to recover WSS indexes is similar to the recovery of any data source. You begin the recovery process from the DPM Administrator Console. This brings up the Recovery wizard which guides you through the process. The recovery process automatically deletes existing index files and resumes the SP Search service after the recovery is complete.
In case of disaster recovery, you must configure SP Search with the original configuration of the latest recovery point before performing a recovery.

Recovering as files

  1. Stop the SP Search service.

  2. Delete the index files at the original location.

  3. Restore the individual components (Search database and index files).

  4. Perform a manual attachment of the database in SQL Server.

  5. Start the SP Search service.