You can use the Configuration Tool or the command line to restore data and,
optionally, configuration settings that were previously backed up.
For a proxy server, only configuration settings are restored.
The server must be stopped before you can restore the database
or configuration settings or both.
Notes:
A database can be restored only into a database and database instance
with the same names that were used for the database backup.
For a directory server (not a proxy server), the restore function
works only if a database is currently configured for a given directory
server instance. The restore function restores the backup database
into the currently configured database. The command fails if the backed
up database instance and database do not match the configured database
instance and database. Additionally, the restore function requires
that the database location of the backed up database and the database
it is restoring are the same.