Backing Up and Restoring Data

To back up data:

1. Back up the SharePoint content databases on your SQL Server instance.
2. Back up the Winshuttle databases on your SQL Server instance.
3. Back up the sharevis.config files in all of your Workflow-extended Web root directories.

To restore data:

1. Reinstall SharePoint.
2. Create the same Web applications as you had on the old system.
3. Install Workflow.
4. Configure all Web applications with Workflow as you had on the old system.
5. Detach and delete all SharePoint content databases from the SharePoint Central Administration and then in SQL Server.
6. Delete all Workflow databases in SQL Server.
7. Restore all SharePoint content databases from your backup.
8. Attach the SharePoint content databases from the SharePoint Central Administration.
9. Restore all Workflow databases.
10. Restore all backed up sharevis.config files.

Should any authentication parameters need to be changed, they all reside in the sharevis.config files in your Web root directories.