Recover a Deleted Document

[Darrell]

I have a PM who deleted the wrong document from a PWA SharePoint team web
site. Is there a way to recove a deleted document from the SharePoints web
site libraries? Something like a general trash can to restore form?

If not, maybe there should be? Luckily the original document was still
available to begin working on again so this PM did not loose to much work.
However, if you collaborate on a document for weeks with several people and
then some idiot with Admin rights, like the PM, accidentlly deletes it you
could loose a major work effort. Microsoft should have a way to recover
documents posted to the SharePoint sites and PWA for just this type of
situation.

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Darrell:

The method that Microsoft provides is called "restoring from backup" which
you should be able to easily execute providing you're backing up your
SharePoint content database.

 

[Darrell]

Thanks Gary.

I was just hoping there was an easier way like a trashcan somewhere that an
Admin could do a restore from. I think MS might want to consider a temp
trashcan for just this type of occation.

Thanks again,
Darrell

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Darrell:

If you're running daily full/hourly incremental backups on the system, it
still seems best to rely on old faithful. However, I think you could cook up
your trashcan scenario pretty quickly with an update trigger and stored
procedure. Food for thought.

 

[Sean Stenlund]

Gary,

Restoring the content database will not work for me (and I believe it will
not work for Darrell either). I need to restore a single document that was
deleted, for example at 9am. We discover the deletion at 1pm and since then,
many documents, issues, risks, and other things have been added, deleted,
modified in the content database since this time. We do not want to lose any
of these changes.

Any suggestions?

Sean Stenlund

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Don't restore it over your production instance, simply restore it somewhere
and connect SharePoint to it to recover the document through the interface.

 

[Sean Stenlund]

Gary,

Der I knew that!

I will restore to a test server and then grab the document. I believe I
also need to restore the WSS Config Database too--correct?

Or, are you saying I can restore the Content Database on the Production
Server (with a different name) and then I wouldn't need to restore the Config
Database?

Thanks,

Sean Stenlund