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Restore a Project Server 2007 farm by using SharePoint Central Administration

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Topic Last Modified: 2008-11-18

This article guides you through the process of using the SharePoint Central Administration Web site to back up 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 SharePoint Central Administration Web site. 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 Project Server farm by using the SharePoint Central Administration Web site

Important

Membership in the Farm Administrators SharePoint group is the minimum necessary to complete this procedure.

Restore to the original server farm

  1. On the SharePoint Central Administration Web site, on the Operations page, in the Backup and Restore section, click Restore from Backup.

  2. On the Select Backup Location page, in the Backup File Location section, type the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path to the backup folder.

  3. On the Select Backup Package to Restore page, select the backup file you want to use to restore, and then click Continue Restore Process.

  4. On the Select Component to Restore page, select the farm you want to restore, and then click Continue Restore Process.

  5. On the Select Restore Options page:

    1. In the Restore Component section, ensure that Farm is displayed.

    2. In the Restore Options section, select Same configuration. A message appears, notifying you that the current farm will be overwritten. Click OK.

    3. In the Login Names and Passwords section, type the user name and password for your Farm Administrators account.

    4. In the New Names section, type new names and URLs for each component, or accept the default values.

    5. Click OK.

See Also

Concepts

Restore a Project Server 2007 farm by using built-in tools
Restore a Project Server 2007 farm by using the Stsadm command line tool