Restore a Project Server 2007 farm by using the Stsadm command line tool

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Topic Last Modified: 2009-01-09

This article guides you through the process of using the Stsadm command-line tool to restore Microsoft Office Project Server 2007.

Before you perform these procedures, be sure that you have read and understand the requirements described in Restore a Project Server 2007 farm by using built-in tools. Also see the prescriptive guidance in Back up a Project Server 2007 farm by using built-in tools to ensure that you are choosing to perform the procedure that is best for your deployment.

This procedure can help you restore a Microsoft Office Project 2007 server farm by using the Stsadm command-line tool. Using this procedure, the farm is restored to its original location. If you want to migrate your Project Server data to another server, see Migrating a Project Web Access instance (Project Server 2007).

Restoring a server farm by using the Stsadm command-line tool

Important

To complete the following procedure, your logon account must have membership in the Administrators group on the local computer and Read permissions to the backup locations.

Restore a server farm by using the Stsadm command-line tool

  1. On the drive on which SharePoint Products and Technologies is installed, at a command prompt, change to the following directory: %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft shared\Web server extensions\12\Bin.

  2. To obtain the backup GUID for the specific backup that you want to restore, type the following command, and then press ENTER:

    stsadm -o backuphistory -directory <Path>

    where Path is the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path to the shared folder that contains the backup. For more information, see Backuphistory: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server).

  3. Type the following command, and then press ENTER:

    stsadm -o restore -directory <Path> -backupid <GUID from backuphistory> -restoremethod overwrite

    where Path is the UNC path to the backup shared folder and GUID from backuphistory is the GUID of for the specific backup package that you want to restore. By using the overwrite value for the -restoremethod parameter, you are directing the old farm to be overwritten by the restored one. For more information, see Restore: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server).

  4. When you receive a warning that all selected items will be overwritten, type y to confirm, and then press ENTER.

  5. When prompted, type the user name and password for the Web application and content databases.

  6. If the recovery finishes successfully, the command window displays the following text:

    Completed with 0 warnings.
Completed with 0 errors.
Restore completed successfully.
---------------------------------------------------------
Operation completed successfully.

  7. If the recovery does not complete successfully, refer to the sprestore.log file.

See Also

Concepts

Restore a Project Server 2007 farm by using built-in tools
Restore a Project Server 2007 farm by using SharePoint Central Administration