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You can use the Central Administration Web site to restore a farm. Verify that the user account that is performing this procedure is a member of the Farm Administrators SharePoint group. In Central Administration, on the home page, in the Backup and Restore section, click Restore from a backup.
Restore Farm Configuration in SharePoint 2013
- Open Central Administration, and just like during the backup process above, select Backup and Restore from the left side navigation.
- Next, select Restore from a backup from the Farm Backup and Restore section.
How to restore farm configuration in SharePoint Server?
You can restore a farm configuration in SharePoint Server by using the SharePoint Central Administration website or Microsoft PowerShell. Which backup tool you use depends on what kind of environment you have deployed, what your backup schedule requires, and what service level agreements you have made with your organization.
How to back up and restore farm settings?
Back up and restore a farm without the content databases attached. This method gives you farm settings and Web application settings, in addition to the settings for any service applications that you select. Back up and restore configurations only.
In earlier versions of SharePoint, you could not restore the configuration database and, therefore, you could not restore the configuration of a farm. Now you do not have to restore the configuration database because you can restore the farm configuration directly. You can use PowerShell to restore a farm’s configuration.
How to copy configuration settings from one farm to another?
There are many ways in which you can copy configurations from one farm to another. Determine which method to use based on the configuration settings that you want to copy and how often you have to copy them. Back up and restore a farm without the content databases attached.