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Problem restoring Sharepoint services 3.0 subsite using Backup Exec 12 and Sharepoint agent
One of our clients has mistakenly deleted a Sharepoint Service 3.0 subsite. They have Backup Exec 12 which is using the Sharepoint agent to backup the site collection.
I tried restoring the subsite by selecting it in the server farm part of the selection list, checked the Sharepoint specific restore settings and ran the restore job. Each time I attempt the restore job it completes with 100% successful and claims to have restored 2.8GB of data but when I try and access the subsite I get a 404 error and the subsite isn't listed in the site settings, so it doesn't look like it has been restored.
I have had a good search through Symantec's knowledge base, but can't figure out what is going wrong.
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I tried restoring the subsite by selecting it in the server farm part of the selection list, checked the Sharepoint specific restore settings and ran the restore job. Each time I attempt the restore job it completes with 100% successful and claims to have restored 2.8GB of data but when I try and access the subsite I get a 404 error and the subsite isn't listed in the site settings, so it doesn't look like it has been restored.
I have had a good search through Symantec's knowledge base, but can't figure out what is going wrong.
Thanks for reading this question.
You can not restore a subsite (web), but an entire site-collection.
... unless you're making use of STSADM commands import/export
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Wadski, thanks, I will give that a try.
Andrei, Symantec's documentation for Backup Exec 12 says that it can restore individual sites, document lists, documents, etc.. which I thought was the whole point. I know that it the agent could only restore a whole site collection in 10d.
If there is no other answer I plan to restore the whole site collection to a different server and use stsadm to export the subsite and then import it to the live one.
Andrei, Symantec's documentation for Backup Exec 12 says that it can restore individual sites, document lists, documents, etc.. which I thought was the whole point. I know that it the agent could only restore a whole site collection in 10d.
If there is no other answer I plan to restore the whole site collection to a different server and use stsadm to export the subsite and then import it to the live one.
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You shouldn't have needed to do that while running BE12. Also, if you have to do a major recovery again in the future and the standard BE12 restore isn't working, you should be able to just use a new web app to restore the site collection to rather than having to install and patch a new server.
Stop the sharepoint services
Restore
Start Sharepoint services
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943605