Help recovering deleted workspace

[jonathandsouza26]

Hey Guys,

This is my first time posting on this forum so I would ask for some forgiveness if I have posted this thread in the wrong section. To jump directly into it:

We have a one project with a workspace that has been storing our issues and risks linked with that project for two years now. A couple of days ago I was performing some testing and accidentally(I know I know) deleted the workspace. These are the steps I followed. I will try and be as clear as I possibly can:

I have recently been working on converting all of the current workspace that we created for the projects from http://opal1/sites/projectserver_144/default.aspx to http://opal1/projectwebaccess/Compte...e/default.aspx . Part of this reasoning was to ensure that all workspaces point to projectwebaccess and not sites or PWA.
For most of the sites with this issues it was fairly straightforward since there were no issues or risks or documents associated with the respective workspaces. Therefore I followed the following procedure in removing them:
1. Navigated to SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration > Application Management > Delete Site Collection > Change Site Collection > Choose the relating site to be deleted and choose delete.
2. Then after this proceeded to Project Web Access > Server Settings > Project Workspaces > Selected the respective project > Delete Site
3. With most of the projects whose workspace had http://opal1/sites/...... Clicking on “Delete Site” did not remove the site from the list. However selecting the workspace and the choosing “Edit Site Address” > “Remove URL for the SharePoint site” did remove the site from the listing.
4. Then selected the same project and selected “Create Site” which created the new workspace

IF that was clear enough. Now as of the current moment the following exists a workspace for IT Internal Audit called http:\\opal1\projectwebaccess\IT Internal Audit but with no issues or risks in them. only the tasks are showing up there.

My backup guys have informed me that through Oracle Data Protector we have a full database backup from Jan 11th which is a little before this issue happened.

Would i be able to restore the workspace only for that project or should I do a full restore of the database.

Or am I pretty much screwed.

I apologize for the lengthy description but i am trying to be as clear as I can.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. If you feel that you need to point at me and laugh that will also be taken in good strides.

Cheers,

jonathandsouza26

Hi jonathandsouza26,

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"jonathandsouza26" <jonathandsouza26.33kyzf@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hey Guys,
>
> This is my first time posting on this forum so I would ask for some
> forgiveness if I have posted this thread in the wrong section. To jump
> directly into it:
>
> We have a one project with a workspace that has been storing our issues
> and risks linked with that project for two years now. A couple of days
> ago I was performing some testing and accidentally(I know I know)
> deleted the workspace. These are the steps I followed. I will try and
> be as clear as I possibly can:
>
> I have recently been working on converting all of the current workspace
> that we created for the projects from
> http://opal1/sites/projectserver_144/default.aspx to
> http://opal1/projectwebaccess/Compte...e/default.aspx
> Part of this reasoning was to ensure that all workspaces point to
> projectwebaccess and not sites or PWA.
> For most of the sites with this issues it was fairly straightforward
> since there were no issues or risks or documents associated with the
> respective workspaces. Therefore I followed the following procedure in
> removing them:
> 1. Navigated to SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration >
> Application Management > Delete Site Collection > Change Site
> Collection > Choose the relating site to be deleted and choose delete.
> 2. Then after this proceeded to Project Web Access > Server
> Settings > Project Workspaces > Selected the respective project >
> Delete Site
> 3. With most of the projects whose workspace had
> http://opal1/sites/...... Clicking on “Delete Site” did not remove the
> site from the list. However selecting the workspace and the choosing
> “Edit Site Address” > “Remove URL for the SharePoint site” did remove
> the site from the listing.
> 4. Then selected the same project and selected “Create Site” which
> created the new workspace
>
> IF that was clear enough. Now as of the current moment the following
> exists a workspace for IT Internal Audit called
> http:\\opal1\projectwebaccess\IT Internal Audit but with no issues or
> risks in them. only the tasks are showing up there.
>
> My backup guys have informed me that through Oracle Data Protector we
> have a full database backup from Jan 11th which is a little before this
> issue happened.
>
> Would i be able to restore the workspace only for that project or
> should I do a full restore of the database.
>
> Or am I pretty much screwed.
>
> I apologize for the lengthy description but i am trying to be as clear
> as I can.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. If you feel that you need
> to point at me and laugh that will also be taken in good strides.
>
> Cheers,
>
> jonathandsouza26
>
>
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