First published on MSDN on Mar 17, 2008
It is not supported to restore the SharePoint configuration database. (This does not mean you can't change a database server for a farm. Think of this as more of you cannot restore an backup over the production copy)
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=948725
Updated Apr 28, 2020
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