IMSAdminBase::Restore

The IMSAdminBase::Restore method restores the metabase from a backup. The restore operation stops all services dependent on IISADMIN, including all servers, until the restore has completed, then restarts all services. You should be careful to plan for this service interruption when restoring the metabase from a backup.

HRESULT Restore( 
  LPCWSTR pszMDBackupLocation, 
  DWORD dwMDVersion, 
  DWORD dwMDFlags 
); 
 

Parameters

pszMDBackupLocation

A string of up to MD_BACKUP_MAX_LEN unicode characters that identifies the backup location containing the backup to be restored.

dwMDVersion

Specifies the version number of the backup to be restored from the backup location, or may be the following constant:

MD_BACKUP_HIGHEST_VERSION

Restore from the highest existing backup version in the specified backup location.

dwMDFlags

Reserved. Must be zero.

Return Values

Returns an HRESULT that contains one of the values listed in the table below. Other errors may also be returned that are passed through from the file system, or from a crypto api when secure metabase data is being saved, or from registry operations.