Recovery (SharePoint Server 2010)
Applies to: SharePoint Server 2010, SharePoint Foundation 2010
The articles in this section are written to meet the requirements of information technology (IT) professionals who are responsible for the planning, design, deployment, and operations of backup and recovery solutions. These solutions might be in enterprise, corporate, or branch office environments. The IT professionals who are responsible for backup and recovery solutions are expected to have an understanding of the technical details that are contained in this section. However, service-level expertise is not needed to understand the enterprise-level discussions and decisions.
Before you restore a farm, ensure that the following requirements are met:
To restore a farm by using the SharePoint Central Administration Web site, you must be a member of the Farm Administrators group.
To restore a farm by using Windows PowerShell, you must meet the following minimum requirements: See Add-SPShellAdmin.
The database server's SQL Server account, the Timer service account, and the Central Administration application pool account must have Read permissions to the backup locations. (The Timer service account and the Central Administration application pool account are usually the same.) The database server's SQL Server account must be a member of the sysadmin fixed server role.
Your login account must have Read permissions to the backup locations.
Ensure that the SharePoint Foundation Administration service is started on all farm servers. By default, this service is not started on stand-alone installations.
Consider the following before you restore a farm:
Restoring from one version of SharePoint Products and Technologies to a different version is not supported.
After recovery, search might take as long as 15 minutes to be available again. It can take longer than 15 minutes if the search system has to crawl all the content again. If you back up and restore the complete service, the system does not have to perform a full crawl.
You can only perform one recovery or one backup operation at a time.
Recover all or part of a farm
The following tasks for recovery are performed on the entire farm, farm databases, sites, subsites, or lists:
Restore a farm in SharePoint Server 2010
This article describes the procedures that you can use to restore the entire farm from a backup.
Restore a farm configuration in SharePoint Server 2010
This article describes the procedures that you can use to restore the farm configuration to the same farm from a backup.
Document farm configuration settings in SharePoint Server 2010
This article describes how to use Windows PowerShell to document the configuration settings for your farm. Documenting configuration settings is important both so that you can create scripted deployments for your environment, and so that you can quickly re-create a set of configurations in the event of a failure.
Copy configuration settings between farms (SharePoint Server 2010)
This article describes the procedures that you can use to of copy configuration settings from one farm to another, including how to back up and recover a farm without the content databases, how to back up and recover configurations only, and how to create a deployment script.
Restore a Web application in SharePoint Server 2010
This article describes the procedures that you can use to restore a Web application that is associated with the farm, including configuration and content databases, from a backup.
Restore a service application in SharePoint 2010 Products
This article describes the procedures that you can use to restore a service application that is associated with the farm, including configuration and content databases, from a backup.
Restore a User Profile Service service application (SharePoint Server 2010)
This article describes how to restore the User Profile Service service application instead of restoring the complete farm.
Restore search in SharePoint Server 2010
This article describes the procedures that you can use to restore the Search service application associated with the farm, including configuration and indexes, from a backup.
Restore secure store services in SharePoint Server 2010
This article describes the procedures that you can use to restore the Secure Store service application that is associated with the farm, including configuration and content databases, from a backup.
Restore a content database in SharePoint Server 2010
This article describes the procedures that you can use to restore a content database from a backup.
Attach and restore a read-only content database (SharePoint Server 2010)
This article describes the procedures that you can use to attach a read-only content database to the farm.
Recover content from an unattached content database (SharePoint Server 2010)
This article describes how you can restore or copy content, such as sites, site collections, lists, or document libraries, from a content database without having to attach the content database to the farm.
Restore customizations in SharePoint Server 2010
This article describes the procedures that you can use to restore customizations that are associated with the farm from backups.
Restore a site collection in SharePoint Server 2010
This article describes the procedures that you can use to restore a site collection from a backup.
Import a list or document library in SharePoint Server 2010
This article describes the procedures that you can use to restore a site, list, or document library from a backup.